Sanskrit is said to belong to Indo – Aryan or Indo Germanic family of languages which includes Greek, Latin and other alike languages. Today the correctness of Sanskrit language is tested upon the touchstone of Panini’s Ashtadhyayee. Literary Sanskrit and spoken Sanskrit both followed Panini’s system of language. He, concising about ten grammar schools prevalent during his time, wrote the master book of grammar named Ashtadhyayi which served as beacon for the later period. Panini (500 B.C.) was a great landmark in the development of Sanskrit language. During this period a vast literature -Vedas, Brahmana-Granthas, Aranyakas, Upanishads and Vedangas had come to existence which could be termed as Vedic Literature being written in Vedic Sanskrit. Later, so many schools of grammar developed.
The Pratishakhyas explained the forms of the words and other grammatical points. Each Veda had its book of grammar known as Pratishakhya. It was to some extent different from the present Sanskrit. It is presumed that the language used in Vedas was prevalent in the form of different dialects. Sanskrit language must have evolved to its expressive capability prior to that. The Vedas are dated by different scholars from 6500 B.C. Sanskrit is an ancient and classical language of India in which ever first book of the world Rigveda was compiled.
