India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.34

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.34

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c6.34

*MAÑJUŚRĪ-MŪLAKALPA*—This work (c. 800 A.D.) refers to king Nanda, his learned council of Brahmin philosophers and to his intimacy with Pāṇini: "After him (Śūrasena) there will be king Nanda at Pushpa City. In the capital of the Magadharesidents there will be Brahman controversialists (*Brāhmaṇas-tārkikā bhuvi*, verse 425) . . . and the king will be surrounded by them. The king will give them riches. His minister was a Buddhist Brahmin Vararuchi who was of high soul, kind and good. His great friend was a Brahmin, Pāṇini by name." (Jayaswal, *Imperial History of India*, p. 14).

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Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa — Sanskrit