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"This study explores the early Indian analysis of a technical term in Sanskrit grammar. The term, ""anga"", is defined and used by the grammarian Patanjali in his work ""Astadhyayi"". It denotes the segment of a word which begins with the form to which a suffix has been added and extends as far as, but does not include, the suffix. One of its functions in the ""Astadhyayi"" is to restrict a large number of grammatical rules to the formation of individual words. Accordingly, the operations taught in these rules cannot cross word boundaries and effect neighbouring elements in a phrase. The term is also used to provide an important limit on operations which would be caused by particular suffixes even when these suffixes undergo grammatical elision."

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