<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">See below<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 3:09 PM, Michael Everson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 13 Jul 2010, at 19:48, Peter Scharf wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">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.<br></blockquote><br>Yes, but can you please tell me what the Sanskrit terms for the following are?<br><br>Vedic dialect.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>'chandas' is the term Panini used. He distinguished from it 'bhaa.saa' (the spoken dialect of Sanskrit at his time).</div><div>'vaidikabhaa.saa' is one modern term for Vedic language. I have never heard Indian terms for the other three. This is not surprising, since historical linguistics is a 19th century European phenomenon, though ancient Indian linguists did have awareness of historical language change. If there are terms for the following, they are probably very modern ones. I'll ask on the Indology list.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Classical dialect.<br>Epic dialect.<br>Buddhist dialect.<br><br>I assume it's something-or-other bhaṣa....<br><br>Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com/</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>