Shakalya was an ancient Indian grammarian and scholar of Vedic period. His original name was Vidagdha. Since he was the son of the Vedic sage Shakala, he was also called as Shakalya.[1][2][3]
He is supposed to have revised the Vedic texts and written their Pada-pāṭha. He is often quoted by Pāṇini and the writers of the Prātiśākhya, treatises on phonetics. His Padapāṭha of the Rig Veda was one of the early attempts in the direction of analysis; he broke down the samhita text of the Rig Veda into words, identifying even the separate elements of compound words.[4][5]
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