According to Sumitra Mangesh Katre, the ten Vedic scholar names he quotes are of Apisali, Kashyapa, Gargya, Galava, Cakravarmana, Bharadvaja, Sakatayana, Sakalya, Senaka and Sphotayana.
Hence, Yāska proposed that when a process is referred to as a 'petrified' or 'configured' mass (mūrta) extending from start to finish, a verbal noun should be used, e.g. vrajyā, a walk, or pakti, a cooking.
This view – that words have a primary or preferred ontological status in defining meaning, was fiercely debated in the Indian tradition over many centuries.
In the prātishākhya texts that precede Yāska, and possibly Sakatayana as well, the gist of the controversy was stated cryptically in sutra form as "saṃhitā pada-prakṛtiḥ".
Yāska also defends the view, presented first in the lost text of Sakatayana that etymologically, most nouns have their origins in verbs.
An example in English may be the noun origin, derived from the Latin originalis, which is ultimately based on the verb oriri, "to rise".