India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.64

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.64

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c11.s2.64

The mention of these minute details shows that Pāṇini was in touch with a living tradition of the sacrificial ritual or *yajñas*. The title *pūtakratu* seems to have assumed a new significance, denoting the man whose mind was purified by the potions of Soma drunk at the *Kratus*. His wife, Patnī, who was his partner in the sacrifices (*yajña-saṁyoga*, IV.1.33) shared in this distinction and was thence called *pūtakratāyī* (IV.1.36).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit