<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>But how Paninian is Classical Sanskrit? NO one has yet modelled Paninian grammar and validated texts against it in any systematic way. The more generic term makes less of a claim and IS THE TERM IN USE.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">*********************************************************</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Peter M. Scharf (401) 863-2720 office</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Department of Classics (401) 863-2123 dept.</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Brown University</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">PO Box 1856 (401) 863-7484 fax</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Providence, RI 02912 </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> <a href="mailto:Scharf@brown.edu">Scharf@brown.edu</a></font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10044">http://www.research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10044</a></font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><a href="http://sanskritlibrary.org/">http://sanskritlibrary.org</a>/</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">*********************************************************</font></div></div></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On 13 Jul. 2010, at 2:42 PM, John Cowan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Phillips, Addison <<a href="mailto:addison@lab126.com">addison@lab126.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm only a slightly leery of a generic-sounding subtag<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for Classical Sanskrit<br></blockquote><br>Since Classical Skt. is the version codified by Panini's grammar, I propose<br>"panini" as the subtag.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>