Ashtadhyayi

See also: Aṣṭādhyāyī

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अष्टाध्यायी (aṣṭādhyāyī, literally “eight-chaptered”).

Proper noun

Ashtadhyayi

1. A grammatical treatise codifying what came to be known as Sanskrit, one of the first works on descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics, or linguistics altogether.