Description metalanguage in Taittiriya Pratishakhya and Ashtadhyai Panini: continuity and innovation
The article deals with the metalanguage of the construction of two Ancient Indian linguistic treatises - the work on the phonetics Taittiriya pratishakhya and the grammar of Panini. Special attention is paid to the classification of Sanskrit sounds in the phonetic treatise (varna-samamnaya) and in the list of Shiva Sutras in the Panini`s grammar. The author shows both the obvious continuity of the approach to the description of sounds in the two linguistic treatises, emphasizing the features of the presentation of the material and the classification of sounds, and the differences in the metalanguage description, due to the purpose of linguistic works, their pragmatics in the ancient Indian scientific discourse.