Patañjali (floruit II century BC; ... - ...) was an Indian grammar.
Lived a few centuries after the well-known grammar Pābinini (hence around the 1st century BC), he is the author of Mahābhāshya, the "Great Commentary" on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī and Kātyāyana's Vārttika. According to Orientalist Giuseppe Tucci, he is not to be confused with the homonymous philosopher, who lived roughly in the first century BC. and the fifth century AD, the author of Yoga Sūtra. The academician James Haughton Woods, the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Arthur Berriedale Keith, are also aligned to this position.
Instead, they disagree with the academic Surendranath Dasgupta, Richard Garbe and Liebich. They are aligned with the Indian tradition that the author of Mahābhāshya and Yoga Sūtra would like to be unique, a tradition that does not seem to precede the X century. Notemodify wikitesto
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