India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s2.14

c10.s2.14

Pāṇini also uses the benedictory term *udaya* in the last but one *sūtra* of the *Ashṭādhyāyī*. The use of *udaya* in place of shorter *para* points to his faith in the practice of *maṅgala* (*udāttaparasyeti vaktavya udaya- grahaṇaṁ maṅgalārtham*, *Kāśikā*, VIII.4.67). The word *udaya* of this *sūtra* was taken by him from the *Ṛik Prātiśākhya*, which uses it as a synonym of *para* (cf. *ṛikāra udaye*, II.32). It is impossible to agree with Sköld who argues that the *sūtra* *a a* concluding Pāṇini’s great work, coming as it does after the *maṅgala*-denoting word *udaya*, is a later interpolation (*Papers on Pāṇini*, p. 8). This assumption is not quite tenable considering that Kātyāyana devotes four *vārttikas* to it, and Patañjali also comments on them as authentic. Both of them conclude their works with the observation *Bhagavataḥ Pāṇineḥ siddham*. Patañjali, in his comment on *siddha*, the first word of the opening *vārttika* of Kātyāyana, makes that teacher also subscribe to the theory of *maṅgala* (as a *māṅgalika āchārya*, *Bhāshya*, I.7).