A grammarian whose systematic analysis of Sanskrit produced one of the most rigorous linguistic works of the ancient world.
Panini produced one of the most systematic works of linguistic analysis to survive from the ancient world: a grammar of Sanskrit built from a small set of rules applied with remarkable consistency and economy. He belongs to this archive not as a religious or philosophical figure but as an example of a different kind of intellectual achievement — the disciplined analysis of language itself.
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The oldest layer of Vedic literature — a large collection of hymns preserved orally for centuries before being written down.
An early Vedic term for cosmic order — the deep regularity of nature and truth that later concepts of dharma partly inherit.
A long, debated era associated with the composition and transmission of the earliest layers of Vedic literature.