India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c13.21

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c13.21

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c13.21

The above data point to somewhat closer contacts between India and Persia during the reigns of the Achaemenian emperors Darius (522-486 B.C.) and Xerxes (485-465 B.C.) as a result of their Indian conquests. This explains the use in India of such terms as *Yavana*, *Parśu*, *Vṛika*, *Kanthā*. To these we may add two others, *viz.* *jābāla* (goat-herd) and *hailihila* (poison), mentioned by Pāṇini (VI.2.38) which were really Semitic loan-words.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit