Pāṇini was a Sanskrit grammarian, logician, philologist, and revered scholar in ancient India during the mid-1st millennium BCE, dated variously by most scholars between the 6th–5th and 4th century BCE. From Wikipedia
The ceremony honored contributions to Urdu poetry and Sanskrit scholarship, with Gulzar absent due to health issues and the 59th award announced for Vinod Kumar Shukla.
