pāṛini | पाऋइनि | pARini
pāṛini | पाऋइनि | m. (according to Pāṇ. iv, 1, 95 patr. fr. pāṛina | पाऋइन |) N. of the most eminent of all native Sanskṛt grammarians (he was the author of the aśwāḍyāyī | अश्wआड्यायी | and supposed author of sev. other works, viz. the Dhātu-pāṭha, Gaṇa-pātha, Liṅgānuśāsana and Śikṣā; he was a Gāndhāra and a native of Śalātura, situated in the North-West near Attok and Peshawar [see iv, 3, 94 and Śālāturīya]; he lived after Gautama Buddha but B.C. and is regarded as an inspired Muni; his grandfather's name was Devala and his mother's Dākṣi [see s.v. and Dākṣeya])
of a poet (by some identified with the grammarian).
of a poet (by some identified with the grammarian).