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Varadarāja was a 17th-century Hindu Sanskrit grammarian. He compiled an abridgement of the work of
his master, the Siddhānta Kaumudī of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, in three versions, referred to as madhya "middle",
laghu "short" and sāra "substance, quintessence" versions of the Siddhāntakaumudī, the latter reducing the
number of rules to 723 (out of the full 3,959 of Pāṇini). These are comparatively accessible introductions to
the very technical grammar of Pāṇini himself, and the 1849 translation by Ballantyne was important to the
understanding of native Indian grammatical tradition in Western scholarship (Pāṇini's grammar was first
translated by Otto von Böhtlingk in 1887).
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