Varadarāja was a 17th-century Hindu Sanskrit grammarian. He compiled an abridgement of the work of his master, the ''Siddhānta Kaumudī'' of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, 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 = ' ( Classical Sanskrit) , influenced= , notable_ideas= Descriptive linguistics (Devana ...

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 dict ...

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, Journal of the American Oriental Society (1970) * James R. Ballantyne, ''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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