Educational Thoughts in the Pāṇinian System of Grammar

Abstract

The Pāṇinian system of grammar is an excellent text available presently as Aṣṭādhyāyī. The present study is a humble attempt to discuss the Ancient Indian Educational thoughts from the illustration of Pāṇinian rules. Mainly, the educational manners used in the teacher-pupil relationship can be traceable from the grammatical examples. The behavioral science which has been enshrined in our ancient treaties can be taken as the ideal educational manner for the present-day society. In this connection, the grammatical literature of the Sanskrit language is taken as the primary source to carry out this kind of study. So, this paper has attempted to examine the grammatical example collected from the illustration of rules composed in Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini.

Keywords

• aṣṭādhyāyī
• pāṇini
• grammatical example
• student
• teacher
• educational thought