India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.2

c10.s3.t1.2

Goldstücker held that Pāṇini did not know the *Atharvaveda* (*Pāṇini*, p. 108). According to Weber this view is not tenable, since Pāṇini has actually utilised the material from this Veda (Thieme, *ib.*, p. 73). Pāṇini mentions Ātharvaṇikas (students of Atharvan, VI.4.174), and includes the name Atharvan and Ātharvaṇa in the *Vasantādi-gaṇa* (*Bhāshya*, II.320), on which Patañjali says that the Ātharvaṇika students were studying an *Āmnāya* (*i.e.* *Śākhā*) and a *Dharma* (*i.e.* *Dharmasūtra*) of their own.