India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.32

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.32

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c12.s1.32

*RĀJA-YUDHVĀ*—That text also states that the king entered the hall for gymnastic exercises and there engaged in wrestling (*mallayuddha*). Pāṇini refers to *rāja-yudhvā* (III.2.95), a term applied to the wrestler who gives exercise to the king (*rājānaṁ yodhitavān iti rāja-yudhvā*). This list of attendants incidentally has reference to the king’s daily routine, as laid down in the *Artha-śāstra*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit