India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.37

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.37

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c12.s6.37

2. *Parśvādi* (V.3.117). There are twelve names in this *gaṇa* common to both *Chandra* and *Kāśikā*, only the name Viśāla is new in the *Kāśikā* and may be an interpolation. The first three names Parśu, Rakshas and Asura are mentioned by Patañjali as forming part of this *gaṇa* and must be names of actual peoples and not mythical (*Bhāshya*, II.270). The following is the full list of the *Saṅghas* in this group:

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Cāndravyākaraṇa — Candragomin, Sanskrit