India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s1.10

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s1.10

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c10.s1.10

*DISAPPROVED PUPILS*—Several terms express the censure attaching to students who misused their privileges or contravened the rules proper for them, e.g. *tīrtha-dhvāṅksha*, *tīrtha-kāka*, 'fickle as a crow' in changing his teachers and schools too frequently (II.1.41 with *Bhāshya* I.391, *yo gurukulāni gatvā na chiraṁ tishṭhati sa uchyate tīrtha-kāka iti*); *khaṭv-ārūḍha*, 'a pupil who takes to the luxury of a householder by sleeping on a cot', (*Khaṭvā kshepe*, II.1.26).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit