India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s3.36

c11.s3.36

*OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS—Ātmā*: Pāṇini uses the term *Ātmā* in such expressions as *ātma-prīti*, *ātma-māna* and *ātmanīna* (*ātmane hitam*, V.¹.9). *Sva* was the word for *ātman* as Self. *Jīva* in such terms as *jīva-nāśaṁ naśyati* (III.4.43) means ‘life’. The Ṛigvedic word *akshetravid* (Ṛigveda, X.32.7, *akshetravit kshetravidaṁ hy-aprāt*) occurs as *akshetrajña* in Pāṇini; and a new word, *akshaitrajña*, had come into existence to denote absence of self-knowledge (VII.3.30).