India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.18

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.18

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c12.s1.18

The implication of Pāṇini's next *sūtra*, *aśālā cha* ('that which is not a building', II.4.24) interpreted with the rule under discussion is that the term *Rāja-sabhā*, and also its specific names, such as *Chandragupta-sabhā*, had a two-fold significance, firstly the body of members and secondly the building where the assembly held its session. Even in the Vedic literature we find that *Sabhā* was the name of an 'assembly' as well as of the 'hall' where the assembly was held (*Vedic Index*, II.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit