India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s1.14

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s1.14

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c11.s1.14

An important sūtra, *Jīvikārthe chāpaṇye* (V.3.99) intended to regulate the formation of names of divine images, proves beyond doubt Pāṇini's knowledge of images of deities in his time. Regarding the naming of images there are the following possibilities covered by Pāṇini's rule and Patañjali's rather involved argument on it:

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit