India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.83

c10.s3.t1.83

A *sūtra* of Kāśakṛitsna was known to Kātyāyana according to Kaiyaṭa (*Kāśakṛitsnasya 'Pratyottara-padayoḥ' iti sūtram*, II.1.51, *vār*). His grammatical work was named after him as *Kāśakṛitsna*, which consisted of three *adhyāyas* (*Bhāshya*, I.12; *Kāśikā* V.1.58). Again, Kātyāyana's Raudhyādi for Pāṇini's Krauḍyādi (IV.1.80) was according to Kaiyaṭa taken from some *pūrva-sūtra*. These references to previous grammarians are, however, few and do not give sufficient data for assessing Pāṇini's indebtedness to them. The ancient illustration *Pañcha-vyākaraṇaḥ*, (*Kāśikā* on a *vārt.* to IV.2.60), 'a student of Five Grammars', must have had in view the grammatical treatises of Śākaṭāyana, Āpiśali, Bhāradvāja (=Indra system), Pāṇini and Kāśakṛitna, these names being obtained by omitting Chandra, Amara and Jainendra from the traditional list of eight.