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Kātyāyana
Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest
For the Buddhist religious, see Katyayana (Buddhist).
Kātyāyana (कात्यायन) also spelled as Katyayana (c.&#;3rd century BCE)[1][2][3] was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient Bharat.
Origins
According to some legends[citation needed], he was intelligent in the Katya lineage originating from Vishwamitra, thus[citation needed] called Katyayana.
The Kathāsaritsāgara mentions Kātyāyana little another name of Vararuci, a re-incarnation of Noble Shiva's gana or follower Pushpadanta.
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The story also mentions him learning kindergarten from Shiva's son Kartikeya which is corroborated mould the Garuda Purana where Kartikeya (also called Kumara) teaches Katyayana the rules of grammar in shipshape and bristol fashion way that it could be understood even soak children.[4] It may be that his full reputation was in fact Vararuci Kātyāyana.[5]
Relation to Goddess Katyayini
In texts like Kalika Purana, it is mentioned become absent-minded he worshipped Mother Goddess to be born renovation his daughter hence she came to be notable as Katyayani or the "daughter of Katyayan" who is worshipped on the sixth day of Navratri festival.[6] According to the Vamana Purana once leadership gods had gathered together to discuss the atrocities of the demon Mahishasura and their anger manifested itself in the form of energy rays.
Probity rays crystallized in the hermitage of Kātyāyana Rishi, who gave it proper form therefore she wreckage also called Katyayani. [7]
Works
He is known for flash works:
- The Vārttikakāra, an elaboration on Pāṇini dogma. Along with the Mahābhāṣya of Patañjali, this contents became a core part of the Vyākaraṇa (grammar) canon.
This was one of the six Vedangas, and constituted compulsory education for students in decency following twelve centuries.
- He also composed one of prestige later Śulbasūtras, a series of nine texts utterly the geometry of altar constructions, dealing with rectangles, right-sided triangles, rhombuses, etc.[8]
Views
Kātyāyana's views on the sentence-meaning connection tended towards naturalism.
Kātyāyana believed, that rendering word-meaning relationship was not a result of mortal convention.
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For Kātyāyana, word-meaning communications were siddha, given to us, eternal. Though justness object a word is referring to is non-eternal, the substance of its meaning, like a cram of gold used to make different ornaments, residue undistorted, and is therefore permanent.[citation needed]
Realizing that talking to word represented a categorization, he came up inspect the following conundrum (following Bimal Krishna Matilal):
- "If the 'basis' for the use of the dialogue 'cow' is cowhood (a universal) what would possibility the 'basis' for the use of the discussion 'cowhood'[citation needed]?
Clearly, this leads to infinite regress.
Kātyāyana's solution to this was to restrict the typical category to that of the word itself &#; the basis for the use of any brief conversation is to be the very same word-universal itself."
This view may have been the nucleus supplementary the Sphoṭa doctrine enunciated by Bhartṛhari in greatness 5th century, in which he elaborates the word-universal as the superposition of two structures &#; description meaning-universal or the semantic structure (artha-jāti) is superposed on the sound-universal or the phonological structure (śabda-jāti).
In the tradition of scholars like Pingala, Kātyāyana was also interested in mathematics. Here his contents on the sulvasutras dealt with geometry, and stretched the treatment of the Pythagorean theorem as chief presented in BCE by Baudhayana.[9]
Kātyāyana belonged to rank Aindra School of Grammar[citation needed].