India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.45
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.45
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(2) *GROWTH OF LITERATURE*—'From this time .... the source (*of language*) spread and passed its former (*bounds*).' This is supported by Patañjali's account of the vast expansion of language after the first impulse to it was received from divine revelation, He writes:¹ 'Here is the