India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.23

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s3.t1.23

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c10.s3.t1.23

(9) *Kaṭha* (IV.3.107). Pāṇini mentions the Kaṭhas separately in IV.3.107; they were the Udīchya disciples of Vaiśampāyana and probably belonged to the Panjab. In the time of Patañjali, the Kaṭha School had attained wide celebrity (*grāme grāme Kāṭhakaṁ Kālāpakaṁ cha prochyate*, *Bhāshya*, IV.3.101; II.315), and their text was considered to be of high authority (*Kaṭhaṁ mahat suvihitaṁ*, IV.2.66; II.285).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit