Panini

519 BC–459 BC

ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules

writer · linguist · grammarian

Born in Shalatula

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Panini:

Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)