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The study of grammar and linguistic philosophy had its origin in the Vedic period, at least in the second millennium bce. The VÀkyapadÁya of Bhart¦hari, an authoritative Sanskrit text written in the fifth century ce, contains reflections on the subject matter of language and grammar, thus the philosophy of language. Interpretation of communication is one of the principal objectives of Bhrt¦hari’s philosophy of language. His goal is to interpret the communication of all living things, be it a man or an animal, or a yogÁ or a baby. Bhart¦hari represents a rich tradition of Indian philosophy of language that he inherited from PÀõini and Pataðjali. The West, for all practical purposes, lagged behind in grammar, literary theories, philosophy of language and with the problems of meaning, even at the dawn of the twentieth century, when the Indian Grammarians made penetrating studies on the same even before the common era.

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Ved Mitra Shukla (b.1980) teaches English at Rajdhani College of University of Delhi, New Delhi. He did his MPhil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a bilingual author in Hindi and English, and translates in both the languages. His translation work Long Poems of Narendra Mohan was published in 2019.

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