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Sanskrit and the Birth of Linguistics: How Vedic Scholarship Founded the Scientific Study of Language
Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī (c. 5th century BCE) is a complete generative grammar of Sanskrit, 2400 years before Chomsky. It was developed, with Yāska's Nirukta and the Prātiśākhyas, to preserve the Rig Veda. How Vedic scholarship invented linguistics — and how that science reached the modern West.