Sakatayana

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Sakatayana is an Ancient grammarian who lived after Yaska and Panini.

He wrote the Lakshana Sastra, or the science of determining the sex in animate and inanimate creation.

These texts may have provided some of the original inspiration for Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency series. In this story, a Swedish character, originally named Svald Cjelli, believes that no such thing as a causal relations exist. His ideology attempts to blend Sakatyana's writings with modern quantum physics. H calls this synthesis "the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things" (Compare: Jung, Collective Unconscious, Synchronicity--an acausal connecting phenomenon).

Sakatayana's main premise is that words are complete wholes, therefore, cannot be broken up in the fashion prescribed for by his friend-fellow, Panini.

Most people did not understand Sakatayana at the time and it seems Panini won out (Hindu mystics seemed at the time to think creating a documented, scripted encyclopedia was important).

Also see: General Semantics, korzybski, hayakawa.