India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c4.1

c4.1

The book aims at an examination of the geographical, social, economic, literary, religious and political data found in Pāṇini’s *Ashṭādhyāyī*. The subject 'Pāṇini as a source of Indian History,’ was suggested to me by my Professor Dr. Radha Kumud Mookerji M.A., Ph.D., while I was admitted to his Ph.D. class in 1929 as a Research Fellow in the Lucknow University. Chs. I—IV of the book substantially represent the Thesis approved by the Lucknow University for Ph. D. in 1941 and Chs. V—VIII for D. Litt. in 1946, with such additions and changes as later research made inevitable.