India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.11

c10.s3.11

As a sequel to intensive efforts at compilation and computation this special phase of naming texts had been evolved much earlier, as names like *Śatapatha*, and *Shashṭipatha* testify. Pāṇini himself refers to two *Brāhmaṇa* works with 30 and 40 *adhyāyas*, and on that account known as *Traiṁśa* (=\*Kaushītakī\*) and *Chātvāriṁśa* (=\*Aitareya\*) (V.1.62).