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'''Padmanabhadatta''' was a [[Vyākaraṇa|Sanskrit grammarian]]. He is a successor to the grammarian [[Pāṇini]], and the author of a [[Sanskrit grammar]] text ''Supadmavyākaraṇa''. He is considered the founder of the Supadma School.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=Shyam Narayan|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81795|title=History Of Tirhut From The Earlier Times|date=1922|pages=187}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Padmanabhadatta was born in a Brahmin dynasty of [[Kingdom of the Videhas|Mithila]] in the 14th century.<ref name=":0" /> His father's name was Damodaradatta.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book | last=Shripad Krishna Belvalkar| url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.6864| title=Systems of Sanskrit Grammar| date=1914| pages=118}}</ref> Their lineage begins with Vararuchi, who was the king poet of [[Kalidas]] along with [[Vikramaditya]].<ref name=":2" /> In the year 1427, Padmanabhadatta introduced his lineage in his book ''Prishodaradivritti''.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Shastri|first=Hara Prasad|title=Notices Of Sanskrit Manuscripts, Second Series|year=1900|volume=1}}</ref> Hara Prasad Shastri has written that Padmanabhadatta was a resident of Bhorgram which was situated a few miles from [[Darbhanga]].<ref name=":4" /><br />
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==Works==<br />
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Padmanabhadatta composed the ''Supadmavyākaraṇa'' around 1375 A.D.<ref>{{Cite journal | last=Ghosh| first=Bhajagovinda| title=Study of Sanskrit Grammar in Tibet| url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_07_02_02.pdf| journal=Bulletin of Tibetology| volume=VII, 2| pages=22}}</ref> ''Supadmavyākaraṇa'' grammar is written in [[Bangla script|Bengali alphabet]], making it accessible to the Bengal provinces by removing the complexity of Sanskrit grammar.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book | last=Saini| first=R.S.| title=Supadma Vyakarana| publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan| year=April 1, 1989| isbn=978-8121700344}}</ref> The text is based on Pāṇini's ''[[Ashtadhyayi]]'', but remodeled and rearranged with explanatory notes. The main objective of Padmanabhadatta was to make knowledge of Sanskrit grammar clear and simple and to Sanskritize the new words that developed in the language. The work became most popular in [[Vanga Kingdom|Vangala]].<ref name=":1" /><br />
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Due to the simplicity and importance of ''Supadmavyākaraṇa'', several commentaries were written on it. Padmanabhadatta himself has written a commentary on his grammar named ''Panjika''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kumar Mishra|first=Akhaya|date=June 2017|title=Development of Sanskrit Literature in Sultanate Period|url=https://documents.pub/document/development-of-sanskrit-literature-in-sultanate-period-srivara-mentioned.html|journal=nternational Research Journal of Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Studies|volume=III, V|pages=283-296}}</ref> Apart from these, commentaries have been written by Vishnu Misra,<ref name=":5" /> Ramchandra, Sridharchakravarti and Kasishvara on Supadma Vyakarana.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Colebrooke|first=Henry T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qkFMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR14|title=A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language|date=1805|publisher=Company's Press|pages=14|language=en}}</ref> Among them Vishnu Mishra's ''Supadmakaranda Tika'' is considered the best.<br />
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Another work by Padmanabhadatta is a lexicon of synonymous and homonymous words called ''Bhüriprayoga.''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Patkar|first=Madhukar Mangesh|url=http://archive.org/details/historyofsanskri00patk|title=History of Sanskrit lexicography|date=1981|publisher=New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal|others=Internet Archive|pages=73}}</ref> The work is divided into three parts,<ref name=":2" /> the homonyms part being bigger than the synonyms.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Bühler|first=Georg|url=http://archive.org/details/grundrissderindo13bhuoft|title=Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde (Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan research)|date=1896|publisher=Strassburg K.J. Trübner|others=Robarts - University of Toronto|pages=37}}</ref> The work was cited in the later thesaurus ''[[Amarakosha]]'' by [[Amarasimha]].<ref name=":3" /><br />
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Other works as stated in his ''Prishodradivritti'' include ''Unadivritti'' (collection of aphorisms on word formation derived by means of unddi suffxes)<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Eggeling|first=Julius|url=http://archive.org/details/p1a4catalogueofs01greauoft|title=Catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the library of the India Office|date=1887|publisher=London Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council|others=Robarts - University of Toronto|pages=226}}</ref>'', Prayogadipika'', ''Dhatakaumudi'', ''Yelugadivrutti'', ''Definitionvritti'' and others.<ref name=":2" /><br />
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