Indian student surprised everyone in Cambridge, solved the puzzle of Sanskrit two and a half thousand years old
An Indian Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
The student has finally solved a Sanskrit grammatical problem that has puzzled scholars since the 5th century BCE.
According to a BBC report, 27-year-old sage Atul Rajpopat has decoded a text written by Sanskrit language master Panini, who lived around two and a half thousand years ago. did.
Rajpopat is a PhD student in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at St John's College, Cambridge.
According to the Independent, Pāṇini taught a "metarule", which is traditionally interpreted by scholars to mean: "In the event of a conflict between two rules of equal strength, the latter in grammatical order shall prevail." The one who rules wins".
However, this often gives grammatically incorrect results.
This traditional interpretation of the metarule was rejected by Rajpopat with the argument that Pāṇini meant between rules that apply to the left and right sides of a word respectively, Panini wanted us to have rules that apply to the right side. Choose.
He concluded that Panini's "language machine" produced grammatically correct words almost without exception.
He told the Independent, "At Cambridge I had a eureka moment. After trying to solve this problem for nine months, I was almost ready to give up, I was getting nowhere. So I read books for a month. and just went swimming, bicycling, cooking, praying and meditating and enjoying summer. Then, reluctantly, I went back to work, and, within minutes, as I turned the pages, these patterns began to emerge, And it all started to make sense."
It took them two more years to solve the problem.
Excited by the news, Prof. Vergiani said, "My student Rishi has solved it – he has found an extraordinarily elegant solution to a problem that has puzzled scholars for centuries. will revolutionize learning at a time when interest in the language is on the rise."
Cambridge University said that out of a population of over one billion in India, only an estimated 25,000 people speak Sanskrit.
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