Baffling Grammatical Puzzle Solved After 2,500 Years
A page from an 18th-century copy of the Dhātupāṭha of Pāṇini (MS Add.2351) held by Cambridge University Library. Credit: Cambridge University LibraryAncient Grammatical Puzzle Solved After 2,500 YearsA grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student at St John’s College. Rishi Rajpopa made the breakthrough by decoding a rule taught by ‘the father of linguistics’, Pāṇini.The discovery makes it possible to ‘derive’ any Sanskrit word – to…