Rishi Rajpopat
Research Assistant/Associate Professor and scholar of Sanskrit grammar, author of Panini's Perfect Rule (Harvard UP, 2025), known for his research reinterpreting Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi and work on rule conflicts in Sanskrit grammar.
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Apr 9, 2026 • 41min
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Rishi Rajpopat, Research Assistant Professor and author of Panini’s Perfect Rule, studies Pāṇini’s Ashtadhyayi and Sanskrit grammar. He explains the decades-long puzzle of conflicting rules. He proposes a reinterpretation that reads “later” as right-hand in the word. He walks through concrete derivations and contrasts Pāṇini’s rule-based system with modern machine-learning approaches.
Apr 9, 2026 • 41min
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Rishi Rajpopat, Research Assistant/Associate Professor and scholar of Sanskrit grammar, presents his reinterpretation of Pāṇini’s Ashtadhyayi. He explains the ‘linguistic machine’ nature of the grammar and the longstanding problem of competing rules. He argues that ‘later’ means rightmost operation in the text and shows how this resolves conflicts with concrete Sanskrit examples.
