India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.26

c6.26

The *Trikāṇḍaśesha* and *Keśava*, both later lexicons, mention Āhika, Śālaṅki, Dākshīputra and Śālātūrīya as the appellations of Pāṇini. We have no means to verify the correctness of the first two names. According to Weber the name Śālaṅki, which occurs in the *Bhāshya*, though it does not clearly appear that Pāṇini is meant by it, leads us to the Vāhīkas (*History of Sanskrit Literature*, p. 218). It would at least accord with the fact that Pāṇini was an Udīchya. The last two are well-known names of Pāṇini. Patañjali quotes a *kārikā* describing Pāṇini as Dākshīputra (*Dākshīputrasya Pāṇineḥ*, I.75) after the name of his mother who was of the Daksha *gotra*. Dāksheya also would be Pāṇini's metronymic.