India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.31

c6.31

¹ A Kharoshṭhī inscription now preserved in the Lahore Museum and dated in the Kushāṇa year 40 (118 A. D.) was found at Shakardarrā near Campbellpore. It mentions the boat-ferry of Śala (*Śalanokrama*, Sten Konow, *Kharoshṭhī Ins.* p. 160), which plied from the eastern bank of the Indus and derived its name from the town of Śalātura situated on the opposite side at some distance from the river. The name Shakardarrā may be derived from Śakradvāra meaning the 'entrance from the east.' There are several high mounds at Lahur, at one of which recent excavations by Madame Corbeau exposed some stucco Buddhist heads and Gandhāra terracottas. Yuan Chwang speaks of a statue of Ṛishi Pāṇini being in worship at Lahur. R. B. K. N. Dikshit first informed me that a life-size image in Gandhāra style, was previously found at a Lahur mound. It is only a Buddha image in Gandhāra style, now preserved in the Peshawar Museum, where I saw it in 1946.