India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.19
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.19
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c12.s6.19
(3) For youngsters (*tṛitīyana kanishṭhāḥ*, *Kāt.*, XXII.4.5; =*Yuvānaḥ*), who had not yet developed criminal habits. We are at once reminded of Pāṇini VI.2.28 referring to *Kumāra-Pūga*. This shows two things, viz. existence of juvenile groups amongst the Vrātyas, and similarity in the political texture of *Pūgas* and *Vrātas* as crude *Saṅgha* organisations.