India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.9

c10.s3.t1.9

Pāṇini refers to a *Krama-pāṭha* in *sūtra* IV.2.61, which appears to imply the *Krama-pāṭha* of the *Ṛik-Saṁhitā* traced to its author named Pañchāla Bābhravya. A Bābhravya is mentioned in *sūtra* IV.1.106 as belonging to the Kauśika *gotra*. In the *Gaṇa-pāṭha* of *Kārta-Kaujapādi* (VI.2.37) Bābhravya's students are referred to along with those of Śaunaka as *Śunaka-* *Bābhravaḥ*, evidently emptying that they were both followers of the same *Śākhā* of the *Ṛigveda*. In the later text of the *Matsya Purāṇa* (21.30) is recorded the tradition that Bābhravya was the author of the *Krama-pāṭha*, and also that he was the minister of King Brahmadatta of Dakshiṇa-Pañchāla.