India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.36

c12.s6.36

and it appears that this was the region of north Rajasthan, where we have already located the Sālvas (*ante*, p. 55). This is confirmed by the *Kāśikā* counting it amongst three rainless areas, *viz.* Trigarta, Sauvīra and Sārvaseni. (*Kāśikā* VIII.1.5; VI.2.33). Mauñjāyana (V.3.116; IV.1.99) seems to be Munjān in the Upper Oxus region, the home of the Ghalcha dialect called Munjānī (cf. *Mauñjāyanī* in IV.1.73 *gaṇa*). The Baijavāpis seem to be a genuine reading in the *gaṇa*, being included in the commentary on *Chandra* also. The name occurs in the *Raivatakādi* (IV.3.131) and *Sutaṅgamādi gaṇa* (IV.2.80), and is mentioned in the *Bhāshya* (II.4.81; I.496), *Charaka* (I.1.10), and the *Śatapatha* (XIV. 5.5.20, Baijavāpāyana).