I always felt like the Tractatus was similar in form to Sanskrit sutra texts—especially those with hierarchical structure e.g. Panini's Astadhyayi [1]. In the A

I always felt like the Tractatus was similar in form to Sanskrit sutra texts—especially those with hierarchical structure e.g. Panini's Astadhyayi [1]. In the Astadhyayi, a sutra can serve as the anuvritti (context) for a subsequent sequence of sutras, and further anuvrittis may be nested within. This results in a tree-like structure where to understand any individual sutra, one must traverse up the tree to gather all the relevant context. While the enumeration scheme doesn't explicitly capture anuvrittis as the Tractatus does, later commentators did considerable work to uncover the hierarchical structure required to understand the text by clearly identifying anuvrittis. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%AD%C4%81dhy%C4%81y%C4%AB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%AD%C4%81dhy%C...