India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s1.55
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s1.55
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(7) *Social Honour*—Membership of a *Charaṇa* carried with it social honour and dignity, of which probably some were not slow to take advantage by assuming superior airs against other persons not possessing that distinction. Pāṇini hints at this sense of pride in the term *ślāghā*, *e.g.* *Kāṭhikayā ślāghate*, 'he glorifies himself in vanity as a Kaṭha.' At times such vanity would result in the disparaging of others, which Pāṇini refers to as *atyākāra*, *e.g.* *Kāṭhikayā atyākurute*, 'being puffed up as a Kaṭha he looks down upon others', (*Gotra-charaṇāch-chlāghātyākāra-tadaveteshu*, V.1.134).