| kātyāyana कात्यायन Definition: m. "descendant of kati-" (See 2. kati-), Name of the author of several treatises on ritual, grammar, etc.  (he is also author of the vārttika-s or critical annotations on the aphorisms of pāṇini-, of the yajur-veda- prātiśākhya-, and of the śrauta-sūtra-s, and is identified with vara-ruci-, the author of the prākṛta-prakāśa-) |