India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.9

c10.s3.9

The school-denoting (*adhyetṛi-veditṛi*) suffix was elided in this case also (*Proktāl-luk*, IV.2.64). Thus both the treatise of Pāṇini and its teachers and students were called *Pāṇinīya*. Although in its effect on the formation of names of the text and its school there was no difference, but from the institutional point of view the difference was remarkable between the method of study as applied to the new works like those of Pāṇini on the one hand and the traditional *Charaṇa* literature on the other. The followers of new sciences were not organized into the same sort of educational fraternity as in the case of the *Śākhā* works. Moreover, the *Pāṇinīya* treatise and the *Pāṇinīya* students did not belong to one particular *Charaṇa*, but were connected with Vedic schools in general.