India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.3

c10.s3.t1.3

Goldstücker had taken the view that the *Vājasaneyī Saṁhitā* and the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* were also unknown to Pāṇini. Thieme thinks that Pāṇini did not gather any material from the White Yajurveda, but this should not mean that Pāṇini's grammar was anterior to the *Vājasaneyī Saṁhitā* and the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* (Thieme, *ib.*, p. 74; K. B. Pathak, *A.B.O.R.I.*, IX.84). Pāṇini refers to Vājasaneya and Vājasaneyin in the *Gaṇa-pāṭha* *Śaunakādi* (IV.3.106).