India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c13.33
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c13.33
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c13.33
*PĀṆINI AND THE JĀTAKAS*—In many respects Pāṇini's language is earlier than that of the *Jātakas*, but in some cases the coincidence between the two is striking and helpful for chronology. Attention may be drawn here especially to the material for mounting chariots, *viz.* *dvaipa*, *vaiyāghra* and *pāṇḍukambala*, which are mentioned in Pāṇini and the *Jātakas* (*ante*, p. 150). The expressions cited above represent older conditions, and as a matter of fact these words occur in the *Gāthā* portions of the *Jātakas* which are admittedly earlier than the prose portions. A date in the fifth century B.C. would explain the linguistic similarities between the *Ashṭādhyāyī* and the *Jātakas*.