India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.15

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.15

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c12.s1.15

The *ashaḍakshīṇa* business must have related to urgent and important matters of state. Pāṇini refers to *ātyayika* (*Vinayādi gaṇa*, V.4.34), urgent business, to which Aśoka also refers in R.E. VI, and so also Kauṭilya: 'Summoning the ministers and the council, the king shall speak to them on urgent matters (*ātyayike kārye mantriṇo mantri-parishadaṁ chāhūya brūyāt*, *Arth.*, I.15). Here *mantriṇaḥ* refers to the Inner Cabinet, and *Mantri-Parishad* to the fuller Council of Ministers. The *ashaḍakshīṇa* deliberations belonged to the former.

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Linked texts (2)

Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit