India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s3.12

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s3.12

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c11.s3.12

The reference to monk's garment (*chīvara*), and the verb *saṁchīvarayate*, 'he dons the monk's robe' (III.1.20) again smack of the institution of Buddhist monks, as *chīvara* signified only monk's dress (cf. *tichīvara*, *Jāt.*, III.471; *paṁsukūla chīvara*, *Jāt.*, IV.114).

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Jātaka — Pāli
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit