वैयाकरणसिद्धान्तलघुमञ्जूषा: Vaiyakarana Siddhant Laghu Manjusha in set of Two Volumes (An Old Book)

DETAILS: 

• Publisher: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Janakpuri
  
• Author: पं. माधव शास्त्री भण्डारी (Pt. Madhav Shastri Bhandari)
  
• Language: Sanskrit Only
  
• Cover: Hardcover
  
• Weight :1900 g
  
• Edition: 2012

ABOUT THE BOOK

Vaiyakarana Siddhanta Laghu Manjusha (वैयाकरणसिद्धान्तलघुमञ्जूषा), composed by the legendary 18th-century master-grammarian and polymath Acharya Nagesha Bhatta (also known as Nagoji Bhatta), is a foundational classic on the philosophy of Sanskrit grammar. This acclaimed two-volume text-critical edition, famously edited and annotated by the veteran scholar Pt. Madhav Shastri Bhandari (and widely issued by institutions like Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office and Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan), serves as an absolute peak resource for advanced researchers of Vyakarana, linguists, and structural philosophers worldwide. The core philosophy of this text centers on the metaphysics of the spoken word and linguistic realism—expanding on the foundational ideas of Patanjali and Bhartrihari to prove that language (Shabda) is not an arbitrary human invention, but an eternal, divine manifestation of consciousness (Shabda-Brahman).

While Nagesha Bhatta wrote three variants of this philosophy (the massive Bhrat-Manjusha, the middle Laghu-Manjusha, and the highly abridged Parama-Laghu-Manjusha), this intermediate Laghu-Manjusha remains the definitive version studied in traditional universities due to its balanced depth. Written entirely in rich academic Sanskrit, the treatise shifts the study of grammar away from simple word mutations to focus deeply on semantics, semantics-syntax interaction, and how the human mind extracts real meaning from acoustic waves.

Structural Division of the Two Volumes