India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.20

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.20

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c12.s6.20

(4) The last Vrātya-stoma converted the elderly members of a Vrātya community, *jyeshṭhāḥ* (*Kat.*, XXII.4.6) also called *sthavira* (XXII.4.7), corresponding to what Pāṇini calls *Vṛiddha* in distinction to the *Yuvan* members in the families. It is thus clear that this four-fold programme aimed at working on more than one front at a time to accelerate the process of Aryanisation of the Vrātya elements in the population.

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Linked texts (3)

Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra — Kātyāyana (Vājasaneyi sūtrakāra), Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Saṃyuttanikāya — Pāli