India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.33

c12.s6.33

¹ *Dāmanyādi group* (V.3.116). The names which are supported both by the commentary on *Chandra* and the *Kāśikā* are Aulapi, Audaki, Āchyutanti (or Achyutadanti), Kākādanti, Sārvaseni, Bindu, Tulabha (*Kāśikā* Ulabha), Mauñjāyana and Sāvitrīputra. Of these only the Sāvitrīputras are mentioned in the *Mahābhārata* (Vanaparva, 297.58; Karṇaparva, V.49) and should be located in the Panjab adjacent to the Uśīnaras. The Sārvasenis (also *Kāśikā*, VIII.1.5; VI.2.33; cf. Bhīshmaparva, 10.59) seem to be a branch of the Sarvasenas mentioned in the *Śaṇḍikādi gaṇa* (IV.3.72), like Gāndhārī-Gandhāra, Sālva-Sālveya. As pointed out by Przyluski *kāra* in Madrakāra meant 'army' or 'troops', being an Old-Iranian word. It is the same as Skt. *senā* (*ante*, p. 57). The Madrakāras were a division of the Sālvas (IV.1.173). In medieval tradition the Sālvas were known as Kārakukshīyas (Hemachandra, *Abhidhānachintāmaṇi*, IV.23), a significant name derived from their territory containing rich pockets of *kāras* or soldiery. This is just the idea of Sārvaseni also,