India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.49

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.49

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c11.s2.49

*MONOTONE (EKAŚRUTI)*—The strict rule of reciting Vedic *mantras* with correct three-fold accent (*traisvarya*) was gradually being relaxed. Pāṇini, like the *Kātyāyana Śrautasūtra* (I.8.16-19), was making a note of the tendencies current in his time when he says that the *mantras* were recited with monotone (*ekaśruti*; *ekatāra* in *Kāt. Śr.*, I.8.18) in the *yajñas*, excepting the few cases of *Japa*,³ Sāman songs and the special *Nyūṅkha* accents⁴ (*Yajñakarmanyajapa-nyūṅkha-*

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Linked texts (2)

Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra — Kātyāyana (Vājasaneyi sūtrakāra), Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit