India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s1.30

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s1.30

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c10.s1.30

Preparations for study with a teacher were called *anupravachanīya* (V.¹.111). A teacher was respectfully approached (*adhīshṭa*) by the father or guardian with request to undertake the instruction of his ward: 'I pray that you be pleased to admit this tender youth to your instruction' (*adhīchchhāmō bhavantaṁ māṇavakaṁ bhavān upanayet*, *Kāśikā* on III. 3. 161). The teacher was named after the period of his instruction (*tam adhīshṭaḥ*, V. 1. 80), *e.g.* *māsiko adhyāpakaḥ*, 'teacher for a month' (*māsam adhīshṭaḥ satkṛitya vyāpāritaḥ*).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit