India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.13

c10.s3.13

*Kṛita* is to be distinguished from *Upajñāta* in that the former referred to a book composed by a certain author; where-as the latter always had reference to a topic promulgated by a person. As Maxmuller puts it: 'A work which has only been taught and promulgated by a person, is not to be called his book (*grantha*), but bears its own title, such as "grammar", or, whatever else it may be, together with an adjective derived from the author's name. Pāṇini's grammar, for instance, is not to be called *Pāṇinīyo granthaḥ*, but *Pāṇinīyaṁ Vyākaraṇam*, because it is a canonical work revealed to Pāṇini, but not invented by him." (*Hist. of Skt. Literature*, p. 361).