India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.34

c10.s3.t1.34

Amongst other *Sāmaveda* teachers Pāṇini mentions Śauchivṛikshi and Sātyamugri (*sūtra* IV.¹.81), of whom the female descendants were called Śauchivṛikshī, Śauchivṛikshyā, and Sātyamugrī, Sātyamugryā respectively. Śauchivṛikshi appears as an ancient authority cited in the *Śrautasūtra* of Maśaka (Weber, *H. I. L.*, p. 77). The Sātyamugris seem to have been a sub-division of the great Rāṇāyanīya School of the *Sāmaveda*, to whom Patañjali refers in connection with a phonetic peculiarity, *viz.* *ardha ekāra* and *ardha okāra* recognised in their Pārshada or Prātiśākhya work, (*Bhāshya*, I.22; also *Āpiśali Śikshā*). The name of Rāṇāyani occurs in the *Pailādi-gaṇa* (II.4.59), and there can be no doubt that they were known to Pāṇini who knew one of their sub-divisions, the Sātyamugris.