{"id":173238,"date":"2023-10-01T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/phd-student-solves-a-mysterious-ancient-sanskrit-text-algorithm-after-2500-years"},"modified":"2023-10-01T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T15:28:30","slug":"phd-student-solves-a-mysterious-ancient-sanskrit-text-algorithm-after-2500-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/phd-student-solves-a-mysterious-ancient-sanskrit-text-algorithm-after-2500-years","title":{"rendered":"PhD student solves a mysterious ancient Sanskrit text algorithm after 2,500 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/phd-student-solves-a-mysterious-ancient-sanskrit-text-algorithm-after-2500-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These stylistic choices make the <em>A\u1e63\u1e6d\u0101dhy\u0101y\u012b <\/em>shorter and easier to memorize than it would be otherwise \u2014 some historians believe it was initially composed orally \u2014 but also incredibly dense. That density leads to rule conflicts, in which two rules may apply simultaneously to the same word yet produce different outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>P\u0101\u1e47ini did provide a meta-rule to solve such conflicts. According to traditional scholarship, this meta-rule states that \u201cin the event of a conflict between two rules of equal strength, the rule that comes later in the serial order of the <em>A\u1e63\u1e6d\u0101dhy\u0101y\u012b <\/em>wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seems simple enough. But when applied, this meta-rule yields many exceptions. To correct those exceptions, scholars have for centuries created their own meta-rules. However, those meta-rules yielded even more exceptions, which required the creation of additional meta-rules (meta-meta-rules?). Those meta-rules in turn created even more exceptions \u2014 and you see where this is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These stylistic choices make the A\u1e63\u1e6d\u0101dhy\u0101y\u012b shorter and easier to memorize than it would be otherwise \u2014 some historians believe it was initially composed orally \u2014 but also incredibly dense. That density leads to rule conflicts, in which two rules may apply simultaneously to the same word yet produce different outcomes. P\u0101\u1e47ini did provide a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}