India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c14.2
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c14.2
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c14.2
The material of place-names in the *Ashṭādhyāyī* has been discussed above (pp. 34-74, 434-454). It is proposed to present here a critical text of the *Gaṇa-pāṭha* relating to place-names (*ante*, p. 72). A study of the comparative material of the *Gaṇas* in other grammatical systems shows beyond doubt that the basis of the Paṇinian *Gaṇa-pāṭha* is sound and that its text was adopted in the subsequent systems and preserved in so many recensions for about a thousand years with tolerable textual purity.