India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.47
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s3.t1.47
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c10.s3.t1.47
From their very nature the last five Books of 40 Chs. could not form the basis of an independent *Charaṇa* text, and therefore the rule of *tad-vishayatā* did not apply to them. These later portions attributed to Yājñavalkya were not given the same status as that of the older established works of Śāṭyāyana and Bhāllavin. Kātyāyana, however, as a follower of the Mādhyandina School of the *Śukla Yajurveda* and of its Brāhmaṇa work the *Śatapatha*, did not consider the last five Books or 40 Chs. as of less authenticity in his time. He, therefore, joins issue with Pāṇini for not treating the Yājñavalkya Brāhmaṇas as *purāṇa-prokta*.