India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.29

c10.s3.t1.29

(19) *Khāḍāyana*. Pāṇini mentions the School of Khāḍāyana in the *Śaunakādi-gaṇa*, and both Kātyāyana and Patañjali take it to be a genuine reading. Patañjali says that Kaṭha was an *antevāsī* of Vaiśampāyana, and Khāḍāyana that of Kaṭha. Kātyāyana makes the important observation that Pāṇini's intention in mentioning the pupils of Vaiśampāyana and of Kalāpin separately was to restrict himself only to such names as denoted the seers (*pratyaksha-kārin*), *i.e.* only persons by whom a Vedic text had been promulgated (*Kalāpi-Khāḍāyana grahaṇaṁ jñāpakaṁ Vaiśampāyanāntevāsishu pratyakshakāri-grahaṇasya*, *Vār.* on IV.3.104). Kātyāyana also states that only Chhandas works were called after the name of the *Charaṇa* or its founder, and not ordinary secular compositions like the *ślokas* of Tittiri which were called *Taittirīya*.