By Shri Kesava Rao Tadipatri
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| Art by Smt.Vani Rao,Baton Rouge,LA |
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Bhagavadgita
is part of Mahabharata, composed by Vedavyasa. Firstly he precedes
Panini by several centuries. Secondly there are nine grammars of which
Paninian is one. Unfortunately that is the only one available today.
VedavyAsa knows all nine grammars and thus his compositions go beyond
Paninian. Thus even Vedas go beyond Paninian. MahavyakaraNa (which is
not extant any more) is one of the nine that Vedas and Vedavyasa used.
Thus Mahabharata is not only chaste Sanskrit, but one may find
constructs which are beyond Paninian.
There
is an interesting story. During Kalidasa time, all the asthAna pundits
except Kalidasa used to sit and discuss the faults committed by
Vedavyasa in his compositions. Kalidasa alone sat aloof all the time and
did not participate in them. During entire discussion, a parrot used to
come and kept on uttering “nava”(which means new). This went on several
days. The pundits and scholars wondered for two things. 1. Why Kalidasa
never participated. 2. Why only during that discussion the parrot kept
saying “nava(new)”. They could not hold and asked the same to Kalidasa.
Kalidasa replied “nava also means nine. You people are not even aware
that there are nine Sanskrit grammars. All of us know only Paninian.
Unfortunately others are lost. At least I am aware of existence of
grammars other than Paninian. It is a waste of time that you people are
trying to find fault based on Paninian. Vedavyasa who knows all nine
went beyond Paninian. That is why I did not partake in that wrong task.
The parrot (perhaps Sukacharya, son and disciple of Vedavyasa came in
that form) kept on warning you people that there are nine grammars.”
Shri KrishNArpaNamastu !!
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