Cāndra school
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The Cāndra school is a traditional grammatical school within the Sanskrit vyākaraṇa tradition, known for its alternative system of grammatical analysis distinct from Pāṇini’s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cāndra school canonical | 1 |
| Sārasvata school | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5681120 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cāndra school Context triple: [Vyākaraṇa, hasSchool, Cāndra school]
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A.
Prabhakara school
The Prabhakara school is a major subtradition of the Mimamsa branch of Hindu philosophy, known for its distinctive theories of language, epistemology, and Vedic ritual exegesis.
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B.
Bhatta school
The Bhatta school is a prominent subtradition of the Mimamsa philosophical system in Hinduism, associated especially with the thinker Kumarila Bhatta and known for its rigorous defense of Vedic ritualism and epistemology.
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C.
Sarvastivada school
The Sarvastivada school was an influential early Buddhist tradition known for its extensive Abhidharma scholarship and the doctrine that all dharmas exist in the past, present, and future.
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D.
Nyaya school
The Nyaya school is an orthodox Hindu philosophical tradition best known for its rigorous system of logic and epistemology used to analyze reality and support theism.
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E.
Pratyabhijñā school
The Pratyabhijñā school is a non-dual Shaiva philosophical tradition of Kashmir that emphasizes direct recognition of one’s identity with absolute consciousness (Śiva).
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cāndra school Target entity description: The Cāndra school is a traditional grammatical school within the Sanskrit vyākaraṇa tradition, known for its alternative system of grammatical analysis distinct from Pāṇini’s.
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A.
Prabhakara school
The Prabhakara school is a major subtradition of the Mimamsa branch of Hindu philosophy, known for its distinctive theories of language, epistemology, and Vedic ritual exegesis.
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B.
Bhatta school
The Bhatta school is a prominent subtradition of the Mimamsa philosophical system in Hinduism, associated especially with the thinker Kumarila Bhatta and known for its rigorous defense of Vedic ritualism and epistemology.
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C.
Sarvastivada school
The Sarvastivada school was an influential early Buddhist tradition known for its extensive Abhidharma scholarship and the doctrine that all dharmas exist in the past, present, and future.
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D.
Nyaya school
The Nyaya school is an orthodox Hindu philosophical tradition best known for its rigorous system of logic and epistemology used to analyze reality and support theism.
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E.
Pratyabhijñā school
The Pratyabhijñā school is a non-dual Shaiva philosophical tradition of Kashmir that emphasizes direct recognition of one’s identity with absolute consciousness (Śiva).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sanskrit grammatical school
ⓘ
vyākaraṇa tradition ⓘ |
| comparedWith |
Jainendra school
ⓘ
Kātantra school ⓘ Pāṇinian school ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| field | Sanskrit grammar ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
analysis of Sanskrit compounds
ⓘ
description of Sanskrit verbal system ⓘ rules for Sanskrit inflection ⓘ rules for Sanskrit word formation ⓘ |
| follows | Candra grammar ⓘ |
| genre | śāstra ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
alternative system of grammatical analysis
ⓘ
non-Pāṇinian rule organization ⓘ |
| hasDiscipline |
morphology
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phonology ⓘ semantics ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| hasGoal | systematic description of correct Sanskrit usage ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | preservation of Sanskrit linguistic knowledge ⓘ |
| influencedBy | earlier Sanskrit grammatical thought ⓘ |
| isAlternativeTo |
Pāṇinian grammatical tradition
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Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī system ⓘ
linked to:
Aṣṭādhyāyī
|
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Candra ⓘ |
| partOf | classical Indian linguistic traditions ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
Indologists
ⓘ
linked to:
Indology
Sanskrit grammarians ⓘ historians of linguistics ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical studies of non-Pāṇinian grammars ⓘ |
| timePeriod | classical Sanskrit period ⓘ |
| tradition | vyākaraṇa ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
metarules for grammar
ⓘ
technical grammatical terminology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cāndra school Description of subject: The Cāndra school is a traditional grammatical school within the Sanskrit vyākaraṇa tradition, known for its alternative system of grammatical analysis distinct from Pāṇini’s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Vyākaraṇa (Sanskrit grammatical tradition)
subject linked to:
Vyākaraṇa (Sanskrit grammatical tradition)
linked to: Cāndra school