# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/panini
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:43:36.821Z

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name: "Pāṇini"
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description: "He wrote a grammar so precise that two millennia later it still governs how Sanskrit is taught and spoken. His system of metalinguistic rules became a template for how linguists everywhere think about language structure."
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deathDate: "-460"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Pāṇini lived in Ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE — the exact details lost to time, knowable only through what his work reveals. His Ashtadhyayi formally codified Classical Sanskrit, organizing syntax, morphology, and lexicon through a series of meta-rules that treated language as a system. The text is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit as a refined, standardized language. When European scholars encountered the Ashtadhyayi in the nineteenth century, they recognized something foundational: a descriptive approach to grammar that predated and influenced figures like Ferdinand de Saussure and Leonard Bloomfield. He's been called the father of linguistics, and the claim, for once, isn't overreach.