Varma Siddheshwar. Critical Studies in the Phonetic Observations of Indian Grammarians

Dehli: 1961. — 190 p.The treatise is an attempt, for the first time in a modem language, to give a general conspectus of Indian phonetic literature.
The introduction (pp. 1-54) gives a chronological survey of Indian works on phonetics, fifty-five of whichhave been examined (cf. p. 29). Of these sixteen are absolutely new, being MS. works. The main body of the treatise (pp. 55-187) is a critical examination of some of the phonetic opinions expressed in Indian phonetic literature and in the works of Pāṇini, Patañjali, etc. [...] It has been shown that these opinions were on the whole sound, and that some of them may be helpful to modern linguistics...