A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
Rishi Rajpopat (St John's College) made the breakthrough by decoding a rule taught by āthe father of linguisticsā PÄį¹ini.
Rishi Rajpopat made the breakthrough by decoding a rule taught byĀ āthe father of linguisticsā PÄį¹ini, and is now encapsulated in his thesis entitled āIn Panini, We Trust: Discovering the Algorithm for Rule Conflict Resolution in the Astadhyayiā.
While researching for hisĀ PhD thesis, published on 15th December 2022, Dr Rajpopat decoded a 2,500 year old algorithm which makes it possible, for the first time, to accurately use PÄį¹iniās ālanguage machineā.
Credit : Swarajya.