Mahabhashya — Opening Verse (Patanjali)
Mahabhashya (Patanjali) · 1 · Verse 1
vyakaranamahabhashyapatanjalipaninishiva-sutrasgrammar-invocation
Sanskrit Original
येनाक्षरसमाम्नायमधिगम्य महेश्वरात्। कृत्स्नं व्याकरणं प्रोक्तं तस्मै पाणिनये नमः॥
yenākṣarasamāmnāyam adhigamya maheśvarāt | kṛtsnaṃ vyākaraṇaṃ proktaṃ tasmai pāṇinaye namaḥ ||
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Salutation to that Pāṇini by whom, having learned the alphabet-sequence (the 14 Śiva Sūtras) from the great Lord (Maheśvara/Śiva), the entire grammar was expounded. This is the benedictory verse opening Patañjali's Mahābhāṣya — the great commentary on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī, composed ~200 BCE.