The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's biography of Panini, covering the Ashtadhyayi's grammar and its own review of the conflicting evidence for when he lived, concluding that the centuries-wide spread of proposed dates reflects the genuine difficulty of the evidence rather than a lack of scholarly effort.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Panini/
Source Typeacademic biography
Reliability Tier2
A specialist academic history-of-mathematics reference maintained by the University of St Andrews, with named editorial contributors and continuous review, tier 2 throughout this atlas for historical-figure biographies. Sources
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