India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.81

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s3.t1.81

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c10.s3.t1.81

PŪRVĀCHĀRYA-SŪTRAS—Pāṇini by incorporating the grammatical contributions of previous writers into his system practically threw them into oblivion. There are, however, a few exceptions. Kātyāyana refers to a *pūrva-sūtra* in his *vārttika* on IV.1.14 (II.205), and the comments of Patañjali on it suggest that Pāṇini's *sūtra* (*Anupasarjanāt*) was borrowed from an older grammarian. Patañjali quotes a *kārikā* referring to a *pūrva-sūtra* in which *varṇa* was designated as *akshara* (*Bhāshya*, I.36).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit