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Sanskrit, although not widely spoken, is the sacred language of Hinduism and has been used in India’s science, philosophy, poetry and other secular literature over the centuries.<\/p>\n
Panini’s grammar, known as the Astadhyayi, relied on a system that functioned like an algorithm to turn the base and suffix of a word into grammatically correct words and sentences.<\/p>\n
However, two or more of Panini’s rules often apply simultaneously, resulting in conflicts.<\/p>\n
Panini taught a “metarule”, which is traditionally interpreted by scholars as meaning “in the event of a conflict between two rules of equal strength, the rule that comes later in the grammar’s serial order wins”.<\/p>\n
However, this often led to grammatically incorrect results.<\/p>\n
Mr Rajpopat rejected the traditional interpretation of the metarule. Instead, he argued that Panini meant that between rules applicable to the left and right sides of a word respectively, Panini wanted us to choose the rule applicable to the right side.<\/p>\n
Employing this interpretation, he found the Panini’s “language machine” produced grammatically correct words with almost no exceptions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n