India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s3.8
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s3.8
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c11.s3.8
As Mr. C. D. Chatterji has shown there were various traditions about the accurate form of Gośāla's name; Maṅkhali was the form according to the Jaina Prakrit and a tradition in the *Bhagavatī Sūtra* makes him the son of a mendicant or beggar (*Maṅkham, Bhag. Sūtra*, XV.1). We have no doubt that Maṅki of the *Mahābhārata* represents the name Maṅkhali in an abbreviated form. Pāṇini explains *Gośāla* as one 'born in a cowshed' (*sūtra*, IV.3.35), which accords with the traditional explanation of this part of Makkhali's name.
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- Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
- Viyāhapannatti — Sudharman, Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit