Abstract:
Panini’s Astadhyayı consists of sutras that capture fundamentals of Sanskrit language and define its structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax. The As.
t.¯adhy¯ay¯ı can be thought of as an
automaton to generate words and sentences. In object oriented programming terms, prescribing s¯utras are objects having its transformation rule
as its method. The meta rules or paribh¯as.¯a s¯utras and paribh¯as.¯a v¯artik¯as
define the flow of the program. During application of s¯utras, conflicts may
arise among two or more competing s¯utras. In this paper, computational
structure of the As.
t.¯adhy¯ay¯ı, s¯utra objects observing the environment,
tree representation of s¯utras and mathematical representation of conflict
resolution techniques are presented.
