How to read a sūtra number

1.1.1 means chapter 1, section 1, line 1 in this file.

English Wikipedia's Aṣṭādhyāyī page, checked 2026-10-16, says eight chapters, four sections each, 3,983 sūtras.

The first row's Devanāgarī is in the data file. Its meaning is not yet sourced from an open text.

IAST is script-converted, not yet human-checked.

Sources and go deeper

ashtadhyayi-com/data. The cached study files come from this open data. last checked 2026-10. Licence: credit required, no formal SPDX.
English Wikipedia, Aṣṭādhyāyī. Background for the grammar these files study. last checked 2026-10. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.