प्रमेय
Prameya
Reading India’s knowledge traditions, carefully.
Grammar, phonetics, metre, astronomy, philosophy and practice, explained from the original sources for curious readers. No Sanskrit needed.
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Reading Pāṇini
About 2,400 years ago, Pāṇini described the whole of Sanskrit in some 4,000 rules short enough to memorise. Linguists and computer scientists still study how he did it. This series walks you through his grammar from the first sound, with interactive tools along the way.
Read Part 1: Fourteen Drumbeats- Fourteen Drumbeats
- Where Sounds Are Borncoming soon
- Six Kinds of Rulescoming soon
- When Sounds Meetcoming soon
- Building a Word from Scratchcoming soon
- When Rules Collidecoming soon
- Who Did What to Whomcoming soon
- Pāṇini and the Machinecoming soon
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The subjects
The six Vedāṅgas, the “limbs of the Veda”, were the sciences every serious student of the Veda learned. Alongside them sit the great schools of philosophy and the traditions of practice.
THE SIX VEDĀṄGAS
PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE
Why “Prameya”? In Indian logic, a prameya is “that which is to be truly known”, the object of valid knowledge. In modern mathematics the same word means a theorem. Things worth knowing, and claims that are shown rather than asserted: that is what this site is for.
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