Kātyāyana is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Kātyāyana in a sentence
Kātyāyana meaning
One of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha.
Using Kātyāyana
- The main meaning on this page is: One of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha.
Context around Kātyāyana
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kātyāyana
- In this selection, "kātyāyana" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bce, discusses, distinguishing and composed stand out and add context to how "kātyāyana" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 400 bce kātyāyana composed vārtikas and also discusses kātyāyana s commentary. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kātyāyana" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kātyāyana
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
About a century after Pāṇini (around 400 BCE), Kātyāyana composed Vārtikas on the Pāṇini sũtras. (15 words)
The text of the Mahābhāṣya was first critically edited by the 19th-century orientalist Franz Kielhorn, who also developed philological criteria for distinguishing Kātyāyana's "voice" from Patañjali's. (29 words)
In the context of elaborating on Pāṇini's aphorisms, he also discusses Kātyāyana 's commentary, which are also aphoristic and sūtra-like; in the later tradition, these were transmitted as embedded in Patañjali's discussion. (35 words)
In the context of elaborating on Pāṇini's aphorisms, he also discusses Kātyāyana 's commentary, which are also aphoristic and sūtra-like; in the later tradition, these were transmitted as embedded in Patañjali's discussion. (35 words)
The text of the Mahābhāṣya was first critically edited by the 19th-century orientalist Franz Kielhorn, who also developed philological criteria for distinguishing Kātyāyana's "voice" from Patañjali's. (29 words)
About a century after Pāṇini (around 400 BCE), Kātyāyana composed Vārtikas on the Pāṇini sũtras. (15 words)
Example sentences (3)
About a century after Pāṇini (around 400 BCE), Kātyāyana composed Vārtikas on the Pāṇini sũtras.
In the context of elaborating on Pāṇini's aphorisms, he also discusses Kātyāyana 's commentary, which are also aphoristic and sūtra-like; in the later tradition, these were transmitted as embedded in Patañjali's discussion.
The text of the Mahābhāṣya was first critically edited by the 19th-century orientalist Franz Kielhorn, who also developed philological criteria for distinguishing Kātyāyana's "voice" from Patañjali's.