Fifty-one Lives — the people the language came through — Deva Bhāṣā
The people · परम्परा

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Sanskrit did not come down a pipe. It came through people who wrote, argued, taught and copied — a grammarian in Gandhāra, a poet at a court in Ujjayinī, a theorist in Kashmir. One a day, beside the day’s conversation.

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Dates in this list are the ones scholars argue about — where a life is uncertain I have said so rather than pick a side. The verses these people wrote are in the Living Verse Studio and the verse of the day; the grammar three of them built is in Pāṇini's machine.