India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.21

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.21

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c12.s1.21

Pāṇini mentions the office and duties of *Purohita* as *Paurohitya* (V.1.128). The *Purohitādi-gaṇa* includes *Rājā* and also *Senāpati* implied in the phrase *patyanta* of the *sūtra*. According to Kauṭilya, next in rank to the Chief Minister was the *Purohita*; after him came the *Senāpati*; and then the *Yuva-rāja* (*Arth.* V.3, p. 247). A *Purohita* was to be learned both in the Veda and in politics (*Daṇḍanīti*).

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit