About 5th Century
The 5th century is the time period from 401 to 500 Anno Domini or Common Era in the Julian calendar. The 5th century is noted for being a period of migration and political instability throughout Eurasia. It saw the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which came to an end in 476 AD.
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15 December 2022, 08:34 GMTUpdated 1 hour ago
A Sanskrit grammatical problem which has perplexed scholars since the 5Th Century BC has been solved by a University of Cambridge PhD student.
Rishi Rajpopat, 27, decoded a rule taught by Panini, a master of the ancient Sanskrit language who lived around 2,500 years ago.
Sanskrit is only spoken in India by an estimated 25,000 people out of a population of More Than one billion, the university said.
Mr Rajpopat said he had " a eureka moment in Cambridge" after spending Nine Months " getting nowhere".
" I closed The Books for a month and just enjoyed the Summer - swimming, cycling, cooking, praying and meditating, " He Said .
" Then, begrudgingly I went back to work, and, within minutes, as I turned the pages, these patterns starting emerging, and it all started to make sense. "
He Said he " would spend hours in The Library including in The Middle of the night" but still needed to work for another two-and-a-half years on The Problem .
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.
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.
However, two or more of Panini's rules often apply simultaneously, resulting in conflicts.
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".
However, this often led to grammatically incorrect results.
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.
Employing this interpretation, he found the Panini's " language machine" produced Grammatically Correct words with almost no exceptions.
" I hope this discovery will infuse students in India With Confidence , pride and hope that they too can achieve great things, " said Mr Rajpopat, from India.
His supervisor at Cambridge, professor of Sanskrit Vincenzo Vergiani, said: " He has found an extraordinarily elegant solution to a problem which has perplexed scholars for centuries.
" This discovery will revolutionise the study of Sanskrit at a time when interest in the language is on The Rise . "
Source of news: bbc.com
