Sanskrit grammarians Sanskrit grammarians (Katyayana (mathematician)) Kātyāyana was probably a scholar who lived in India around 200 BC. Like Baudhayana, he composed the Sulba Sutras, or sacred mathematical texts for the Vedic rites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Katyayana (mathematician)"
(Pāṇini) ( IPA ) was an ancient Gandharan grammarian (approximately 5th century BC, but estimates range from the 7th to the 3rd centuries) who is most famous for formulating the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology known as the . ...more on Wikipedia about "Pāṇini"
Patañjali ( Devanāgarī पतञ्जलि) is the compiler of the Yoga Sutra, a major work containing aphorisms on the practical and philosophical wisdom regarding practice of Raja Yoga. ("Yoga" in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system of meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to the one common soul, God, or Brahma/ Atman.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Patañjali"
Sanskrit grammatical tradition ( , one of the six Vedanga disciplines) begins in late Vedic India, and culminates in the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini (ca. 5th century BC). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sanskrit grammarians"
Shaunaka (a patronym of Shunaka "little dog", the name of a Rishi) is the name applied to teachers, and to a Shakha of the Atharvaveda. It is especially the name of a celebrated Sanskrit grammarian, author of the Rigveda-Pratishakya, the , the and other works. He is claimed as the teacher of Katyayana and especially of Ashvalayana, and is said to have united the Bashkala and Shakala Shakhas of the Rigveda. In legend, he is sometimes identified with Gritsamada, a Vedic Rishi. According to the Vishnu Purana, Shaunaka was the son of Gritsamada, and invented the system of the four Hindu castes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shaunaka"
Yaska Acharya is a celebrated Sanskrit scholar and grammarian of ancient India. He is believed to have flourished, according to one school as early as during eighth BCE, while according to other, as late as during third century BCE. Acharya Yaska is the author of a well known ancient work on etymology of Sanskrit words, known as Nirukta. He is thought to have succeeded Sakatayana, an old grammarian and expositor of the Vedas, as the latter has mentioned the former in his Nirukta. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yaska"
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