India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.20

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.20

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c12.s1.20

According to Ludwig the Vedic *Sabhā* was an assembly not of all the people but of the Brāhmaṇas and Maghavans or the rich aristocrats (*Vedic Index*, II.426). The word *sabheya*, 'worthy of the assembly' is taken by Keith to support this view. Vedic *sabheya* (IV.4.106) corresponds to *sabhya* of classical Sanskrit (*sabhāyāṁ sādhuḥ sabhyaḥ*, IV.4.105), which must have been applied only to those who were privileged to become members of the *Sabhā*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit