India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.5
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.5
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c6.5
Coming at the end of a long evolution of grammatical studies the *Ashṭādhyāyī* achieved finally its position as the only adequate and comprehensive Sanskrit grammar. Regarded as the highest authority and also as infallible, Pāṇini superseded all his predecessors whose works have consequently been lost in oblivion. Of the older linguists, Yāska alone survives, and that because his work lay in the different field of Vedic exegesis.