India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.29
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.29
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Yuan Chwang visited Śalātura in the seventh century A.D. and found that the tradition about Pāṇini was current there. He writes, "To the north-west of U-to-kia-han-c'ho 20 li or so we come to the town of P'o-ls-tu-lo. This is the place where the Ṛishi Pāṇini, who composed the *Ching-ming-lun* (चिङ् मिङ् लुन्=शब्दविद्या) was born.' (Beal, *Siyuki*, I. p. 114; also footnote equating the symbol *p'o* for *so'*).