# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaska
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:42:33.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaska"
name: "Yāska"
slug: "yaska"
description: "Yāska was an ancient Indian grammarian and Vedic linguist. Preceding Pāṇini, he is traditionally identified as the author of Nirukta, the discipline of \"etymology\" within the Sanskrit grammatical tradition, and the Nighantu, the oldest proto-thesaurus in India. Nirukta is one of the six Vedāṅgas in Hinduism. Yaska is widely regarded as the precursive founder of the discipline of what would become etymology in both the East and the West."
tagline: "Indian linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-500"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           46.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.28963466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%80%B6%E6%96%AF%E8%BF%A6"
    title: "耶斯迦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaska"
    title: "Yaska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95"
    title: "যাস্ক"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95"
    title: "यास्क"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95"
    title: "যাস্ক"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaska"
    title: "Yaska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C4%81ska"
    title: "Yāska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iask%C3%A1"
    title: "Iaská"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9"
    title: "یاسک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A2ska"
    title: "Yâska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95"
    title: "यास्क"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C4%81ska"
    title: "Yāska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95"
    title: "यास्क"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95"
    title: "यास्क"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C4%81ska"
    title: "Yāska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Яска"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%83"
    title: "यास्कः"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "யாஸ்கர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q993504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump