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Pāṇini, an Uncommon card
Panini was an ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian and linguist whose masterwork, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, is the foundational text of Vyākaraṇa, one of the six Vedāṅgas of ancient Indian scholarship.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Pāṇini quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pāṇini card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His most notable work, the ______, is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit.
Answer
Ashtadhyayi. His most notable work, the Ashtadhyayi, is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit. From the Pāṇini article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Brahmic scripts. Brahmic scripts 89 · History of technology 86 · George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 83 · Pāṇini 79 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Urartu. Urartu 170,000 · Pāṇini 110,000 · History of technology 76,000 · Leo Amery 46,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He lived during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th centuries BCE.
- The historical facts of his life are unknown, except only what can be inferred from his works, and legends recorded long after.
- His most notable work, the Ashtadhyayi, is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pāṇini article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Pāṇini
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pāṇini (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jameela P., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
