Vararuchi
Vararuchi) (वररुचि) is a name associated with several literary and scientific texts in Sanskrit.
Vararuci is often identified with Kātyāyana.[1] Kātyāyana is the author of Vārtikās which is an elaboration of certain sūtrās (rules or aphorisms) in Pāṇini's much revered treatise on Sanskrit grammar titled Aṣṭādhyāyī. Kātyāyana is believed to have flourished in the 3rd century BCE.[2]
However, this identification of Vararuci with Kātyāyana has not been fully accepted by scholars.[3] Vararuci is believed to be the author of Prākrita Prakāśa the oldest treatise on the grammar of Prākrit language.[4] Vararuci's name appears in a verse listing the 'nine gems' (navaratnas) in the court of one King Vikrama.[5]
Vararuci appears as a prominent character in Kathasaritsagara ("ocean of the streams of stories"), a famous 11th century collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk tales as retold by a Saivite Brahmin named Somadeva.
References
- ↑ Edwards Byles Cowell (1854). The Prākrita-prakāsa or the Prākrit grammar of Vararuci with the commentary (Manorama) of Bhāmaha. Hertford, England: Stephen Austin, Book Sellers to East India College.
- ↑ Harold G. Coward; Karl H. Potter; K. Kunjunni Raja, eds. (1990). Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies: The philosophy of the grammarians. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. pp. 458–459. ISBN 978-81-208-0426-5.
- ↑ Richard Pischel, Subhadra Jhā (1999). A grammar of the Prākrit languages (2 ed.). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 45. ISBN 978-81-208-1680-0.
- ↑ Edwards Byles Cowell (1854). The Prākrita-prakāsa or the Prākrit grammar of Vararuci with the commentary (Manorama) of Bhāmaha. Hertford, England: Stephen Austin, Book Sellers to East India College.
- ↑ V. P. Ramachandra Dikshitar; V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar (1952). The Gupta Polity. Delhi: Motilal Barasidass. pp. 37–38. ISBN 81-208-1024-4.