India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.53

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.53

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c11.s2.53

*sāmasu*, I.2.34). Jaimini made a vigorous attempt to restore the old practice of reciting Vedic *mantras* with their threefold accent whether for study or for ritual purposes (*Mīmāṁsā*, XII.3.20-24; D. V. Garge, Jaimini, Śabara and the Science of Grammar, A.B.O.R.I., XXX, 254-5). But it seems to have been a losing battle against heavy odds. The *Tait. Pr.* also records the practice of monotone (*sarvam ekamayam, T. Pr.* XV.9).

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Mīmāṃsāsūtra — Jaimini, Sanskrit
Taittirīyaprātiśākhya — Sanskrit