''Sarasvati-Kanthabharana'' ( sa, सरस्वती-कण्ठाभरण, ) [] is a Sanskrit Vyākaraṇa, Vyakarana treatise, authored by Bhoja, Bhoja deva, a king of Paramara dynasty in the 11th century AD. The work consists of eight chapters, each further divided into four-quarters dealing with both non-Vedic and

Vedic upright=1.2, The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the '' Atharvaveda''. The Vedas (, , ) are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the ...

language. The work is styled in a similar fashion as

Pāṇini , era = ;;6th–5th century BCE , region = Indian philosophy , main_interests = Grammar, linguistics , notable_works = ' (Sanskrit#Classical Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit) , influenced= , notable_ideas=Descript ...

Aṣṭādhyāyī The (Devanagari अष्टाध्यायी) is a grammar that describes a form of an early Indo-Aryan language: Sanskrit. Authored by Sanskrit philologist and scholar Pāṇini and dated to around 500 BCE, it describes the language as cu ...

. Some experts consider the Bhoja's work as a revision of the veteran Panini and among "most voluminous" Sanskrit works. The book has incorporated many

sutra ''Sutra'' ( sa, सूत्र, translit=sūtra, translit-std=IAST, translation=string, thread)Monier Williams, ''Sanskrit English Dictionary'', Oxford University Press, Entry fo''sutra'' page 1241 in Indian literary traditions refers to an aph ...

s from various Sanskrit authors in the form of his grammar. Some commentators also argue that the work is also known as ''Lakshana-Prakasha''. While some note, Bhoja had authored another extensive work, which concentrated on poetry with the same title. In line with many Sanskrit grammarians who had incorporated Panini's Vedic sutras to understand classical Vedic

mantra A mantra (Pali: ''manta'') or mantram (मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit, Pali and other languages believed by practitioners to have religious, ma ...

s. Bhoja asserts anyone who aspires to learn

Sanskrit grammar The grammar of the Sanskrit language has a complex verbal system, rich nominal declension, and extensive use of compound nouns. It was studied and codified by Sanskrit grammarians from the later Vedic period (roughly 8th century BCE), culminating ...

, has to query everything from the sutra's alone and not to search in different texts. Radhamadhab Dash, a Sanskrit scholar and Vice-Chancellor of

Shri Jagannath Sanskrit Vishvavidayalaya Shri Jagannath Sanskrit Vishvavidayalaya, also known as Shri Jagannath Sanskrit University, is located in Puri, Odisha, India. It was established to promote Sanskrit Language and named after Lord Shri Jagannath in Puri Puri () is a coas ...

commends Sarasvati-Kanthabharana of Bhoja and compares it to Panini and observes that no other grammarians have attempted to present the classical Sanskrit grammar in a Vedic perspective.

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