India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s1.12

c10.s1.12

In the above examples *Chārāyaṇa* is cited by Kauṭilya as an ancient author of *Arthaśāstra*, and may be identified with the great minister of king Prasenajit of Kosala. Similarly Rauḍhi was a junior contemporary of Pāṇini himself, as shown by the example *Pāṇinīya-Rauḍhīyāḥ*, in which the names are cited in a chronological order (*Kāśikā*, VI.2.36; also *Bhāshya*, IV.1.79; II.233).