India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s1.36

c10.s1.36

Strict regulations characterised the *pārāyaṇa* of Vedic texts by *pārāyaṇika* students observing the vow (*pārāyaṇaṁ vartayati*, V.1.72). Naturally a particular mode of recitation was selected at one time, such as *saṁhitā-pārāyaṇa* (*nirbhuja*), *pada-pārāyaṇa* (*pratṛiṇṇa*) and *krama pārāyaṇa*. Each school had carefully computed the extent of its Vedic text for the purpose of *pārāyaṇa*; the *Charaṇavyūha-pariśishṭa* of Śaunaka states the *pārāyaṇa* text of Ṛigveda to comprise 10,580 verses (I.10).