[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c14.2 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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. - [Previous: c13.s1.t1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c13.s1.t1.31) - [Next: c14.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c14.3) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c14.2) · Pramāṇa