India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.43
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.43
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c6.43
and he added that whoever should learn it from beginning to end should receive as his reward a thousand pieces of gold. And so from that time masters have received it and handed it down in its completeness for the good of the world. Hence the Brāhmaṇas of this town are well grounded in their literary work, and are of high renown for their talents, well informed as to things (*men and things*), and of a vigorous understanding (*memory*).' (*Siyuki*, pp. 114-115).