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The Ashtadhyayi (aṣṭādhyāyī, meaning "eight chapters") is the earliest known grammar of Sanskrit, and the earliest known work on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, and perhaps linguistics as a whole.
The Ashtadhyayi consists of 3,959 sutras (sutrani) or rules, distributed among eight chapters, which are each subdivided into four sections or padas (padani).
From example words in the text, and from a few rules depending on the context of the discourse, additional information as to the geographical, cultural and historical context of Panini can be discerned.
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  BhashaIndia.com :: The Ashtadhyayi
However, of late, there is a growing opinion in the computer science community, that much before the Backus-Naur form came into existence in 1959, the grammar of the Sanskrit language was defined in an extremely unambiguous and formal manner, almost akin to the definition style of most modern programming languages.
Panini (पाणिनि), a sage who is believed to have lived around the fifth century B.C., although other claims trace him to the 4th, 6th and 7th centuries, is credited with having created the Ashtadhyayi (अष्ठाध्यायी), or Ashtak (अष्टक), which is a grammar defining the structure and syntax of the Sanskrit language.
The Ashtadhyayi, written in eight chapters, divided into quarter chapters, distinguishes between the language spoken by the people of the time and the language used for classical literature, besides defining a syntax for the Sanskrit language.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ashtadhyayi
The Ashtadhyayi consists of 3,959 sutrani or rules, distributed among eight chapters, which are each subdivided into four sections or padas.
Panini’s grammar has 4,000 sutras (short sentences) and they are arranged and categorized in such an easy-to-understand way that it reflects the marvel of his presentation of the Sanskrit grammar.
For the convenience of the scholars, he added dhatu path at the end of Ashtadhyayi which is the dictionary of the root words of the Sanskrit language.
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The structure of the Ashtadhyayi by I. S Pawate (Unknown Binding - 1987)
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