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Can someone attempt to ELI5/provide more context for why "always choose the right" eluded scholars for so long?
by hoten 4y ago
Can someone attempt to ELI5/provide more context for why "always choose the right" eluded scholars for so long?
- guerrilla 4y agoMy guess is he said "always choose the latter" so they thought he meant the latter rule to apply rather than the latter morpheme to apply a rule.
- bakul 4y agoSeems modern scholars apply this rule (1.4.2) in a much narrower scope. The researcher argues that 1.4.2 is actually a metarule that applies to all of Aṣtādhyāyī. Covered near the end of the 1st chapter in his thesis.
- theagilecoder 4y agoThe scholars did not start immediately misinterpreting it. For example, rishi katyayana who came after rishi panini in his commentarty correctly understands the rule but somehow later scholars started misinterpreting it and it carried to this day until rishi rajpopat went back to the original source and deciphered it correctly (such a funny coincidence his first name is rishi lol)