अष्टाध्यायी

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Etymology

Compound of अष्ट (aṣṭa) +‎ अध्याय (adhyāya) +‎ -ई ().

Pronunciation

Proper noun

अष्टाध्यायी (aṣṭādhyāyīf

  1. (linguistics) Literary meaning "eight chapters"; the earliest known grammar of Sanskrit, and one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.