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Sage Panini's manuscript Ashtadhayayi is considered to be reference book for all scholars of Sanskrit grammar. This thread explores a relatively unknown fact that his work also formed the basis of modern computer programming languages.

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Mahrishi Panini is said to have lived around 500 BC acc to western historians. But this is at most an educated guess based upon context references of his written work. His manuscript Ashtadhyayi consists of 8 chapters and 4000 verses.

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His work was first studied by a European linguist Franz Bopp in the 19th century; finding new ways to strengthen grammar rules for current languages. Many others followed: Panini; Ferdinand De Saussure; Leonard Bloomfield; Fritz Stall among them

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