India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.35
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.35
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*RĀJAŚEKHARA*—Rājaśekhara (c. 900 A.D.) gives further point to this tradition by saying that in the city of Pāṭaliputra there was an old institution called *Śāstrakāra-parīkshā*, the Board to examine authors of scientific systems. Before this Board appeared such great masters of grammar as Upavarsha, Varsha, Pāṇini, Piṅgala, Vyāḍi, Vararuchi and Patañjali. Examined (*parīkshitāḥ*) by this Board they attained fame.¹ These names embody literary history over a long period.