India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.37

c10.s3.t1.37

*ATHARVAVEDA*—Pāṇini mentions Ātharvaṇika as a student devoted to the study of a work called *Atharvan* which was enounced by the Ṛishi Atharvan (VI.4.174). Patañjali accepts Atharvan and Ātharvaṇa as genuine readings in the *Vasantādi-gaṇa* (IV.2.63), which according to Pāṇini were names of texts for study (*Tadadhīte tadveda*). Patañjali definitely mentions the *Āmnāya* and *Dharma* of the Ātharvaṇikas. The compound name *Mauda-Paippalādāḥ* in the *Kārta-Kaujapādi-gaṇa* represented two Schools of the *Atharvaveda*. Thieme attributes definite knowledge of the *Atharvaveda* to Pāṇini who mentions the form *ailayīt* (III.1.51) found only in AV., VI.16.3 (Thieme, *op. cit.* p. 64). The Jājalas, a School of the *Atharvaveda* founded by Jājali, are mentioned by Kātyāyana in a *vārttika* to *sūtra* VI.4.144.