India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.22

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.22

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c11.s2.22

Selection of priests must have depended on their special knowledge of the ritual for which they were invited. Pāṇini refers to the emergence of experts who made a special study of the complicated ritual of Soma-kratus like Agnishṭoma and Vājapeya, and were named *Āgnishṭomika*, *Vājapeyika* after those rituals (*Kratūkthādisūtrāntāṭ-ṭhak*, IV.2.60). For such important sacrifices the invitations would naturally be issued to them. Along with their pupils these masters cultivated advanced studies of those specialized *Kratu* texts (*kratu visheśa-vāchibhyaṣh-ṭhak pratyayo bhavati tadadhīte tad-vedetyasmin vishaye, Kāśikā*).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit