Varadarāja was a 17th-century Hindu

Sanskrit grammarian Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominalization, nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cul ...

. He compiled an abridgement of the work of his master, the ''Siddhānta Kaumudī'' of

Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita Bhattoji Dikshita was a 17th-century Maharashtrian Sanskrit grammarian, author of the , literally "Illumination of the established (position)". He was active in a revival of the grammatical methods of Pāṇini, in his work arranging Pāṇini's su ...

, in three versions, referred to as ''madhya'' "middle", ''laghu'' "short" and ''sāra'' "substance, quintessence" versions of the ''Siddhāntakaumudī'', the latter reducing the number of rules to 723 (out of the full 3,959 of Pāṇini). These are comparatively accessible introductions to the very technical grammar of

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

himself, and the 1849 translation by Ballantyne was important to the understanding of native Indian grammatical tradition in Western scholarship (Pāṇini's grammar was first translated by

Otto von Böhtlingk Otto von Böhtlingk (russian: Оттон Николаевич Бётлингк, ''Otton Nikolayevich Byotlingk''; 30 May 1815 – 1 April 1904) was a Russian-German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. His ''magnum opus'' was a Sanskrit-German dicti ...

in 1887). Editions: *Maṅgala Dharmakīrtti Śrī Anavamadarśī, ''Laghu Siddhānta Kaumudi (included in Pāṇini Grammar): Sanskrit by Pandit Varadaraja with Tatwadipika. A Sinhalese Commentary'', Colombo: M.J. Rodrigo Vidane Mohandiram (1926) *Jñānavimala Tiṣya, ''Pāṇini Sanskrit Grammar: Maddhya Siddhanta Kaumudi'', Panadure: M.H. Salgado 1928. *G. V. Devasthali, ''Sārasiddhāntakaumudī of Varadarāja'', University of Poona (1968), review:

Rosane Rocher Rosane Rocher (née Debels, born 10 August 1937) is a leading historian of Indology and a Professor Emerita of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Mouscron, Belgium, she earned MAs in Classics in 1959 and in Indo-Iranian s ...

, Journal of the American Oriental Society (1970) *

James R. Ballantyne James Robert Ballantyne (1813–1864) was a Scottish Orientalist. From 1832 to 1845 he was a master at the Scottish Naval and Military Academy in Edinburgh, teaching Persian Hindi and Arabic to prospective officers of the East India Company. Fr ...

, ''Laghukaumudi of Varadaraja'' (1849–52); 2001 reprint: *Miroj Shakya, University of the West, Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies, http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/content/881/3011

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