India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s3.37

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s3.37

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c11.s3.37

*Prāṇabhṛit* or *prāṇin*, ‘one endowed with *prāṇa*’ included both men and animals, as distinguished from herbs and trees or the plant kingdom (IV.3.135). Pāṇini also distinguishes animate kingdom, *chittavat* (I.3.88) from *achitta* or the inanimate world (IV.2.47).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit