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sgra rig pa

Dictionary Definition: 

[translation-san] {MSA} śabda-vidyā

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} science of grammar; science of grammar and philology

[comments] Comment: One of the five lesser sciences (rig gnas chung ba lnga): healing or medicine (gso ba); grammar (sgra rig pa); epistemology (tshad ma); reasoning (gdan tshig); arts (bzo ba). check these in 3 vol. dic and make entries for each along with five great sciences. These are from Das and seem wrong

example
  • [bod] des gzhon nu'i tshe bram ze lha'i dbang po zhes bya ba dang / rgyal rigs nyi ma'i blo gros la sgra rig pa brlab ste/
  • [eng] during his youth, [Mañjushrīkīrti] studied the science of grammar and philology with the brahmin Devendriya and the kṣhatriya Sūryamati {GZ 66a.6}