India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.12

c10.s3.12

(4) *Kṛita* (IV.3.87; IV.3.116). This class of literature comprised ordinary works, termed *grantha*, which were named after their subject-matter (*Adhikṛitya kṛite granthe*, IV.3.87) or by an adjective derived from the author's name (*Kṛite granthe*, IV.3.116). The rise of the *śloka* metre and with it the emergence of the classical poet (*ślokakāra*, III.2.23) rapidly brought into being a new type of *kāvya* and *nāṭaka* literature as a medium of literary effort, and these were put under the *Kṛita* class. For example, *Saubhadra* (a book based on the story of Subhadrā); *Yāyāta* (on the legend of Yayāti); and *Vāraruchāḥ ślokāḥ* (a book of verses composed by Vararuchi), all later examples recorded in the *Kāśikā*. Pāṇini himself cites *Śiśukrandīya*, *Indrajananīya* (works relating to the birth of Kṛishṇa and Indra) as instances of *Kṛita* works.