https://web.stanford.edu/class/linguist289/encyclopaedia001.pdf
Is Pânini's formal system (which appears to be in the form of a term-rewriting system and is the true source of generative grammar) Turing complete ? That is to say, could the same formal mechanism Pânini used to specify the structure of Sanskrit be used to generated the expressions of any recursive set of strings ? This would make Pânini of supreme logical and philosophical interest. There might be a connection to Vedic rituals: the development of a formal language (a programing language) to codify rituals.
The close connection of the grammatical structure of Old Church Slavonic to Sanskrit (and Indo-European in general) is fascinating. The Glagolithic alphabet is curious. The Byzantine historical attestation of the Bandura (Ukrainian: бандура) points to a survival of an ancient music tradition.
We entertain the idea that certain peoples among the ancient Slavs may have possessed a form of Buddhism (we see, as attested in the Pali suttas themselves, Gotama's doctrine and practice as a restoration of something even more ancient). A common view would be that ancient Scythians and Sarmatians may have played a role.
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