Rishi Rajpopat's breakthrough on Pāṇini's ancient grammar demonstrates the potential of stepping back from problems to gain new insights—after a summer spent away from research.
Rajpopat describes how, upon his return, 'within minutes, as I turned the pages, these patterns started emerging, and it all started to make sense', highlighting the effectiveness of fresh perspectives.
The article explains that Pāṇini's grammatical rules posed significant challenges for scholars, who often struggled with simultaneous rule applicability, stressing the complexity embedded within ancient linguistics.
Rajpopat discovered that Pāṇini's 'metarule' advises choosing the rule applicable to the right side of a word—an insight that simplified interpretation of complex grammatical structures.
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