India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.53
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.53
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c6.53
'What to speak of the present times when the maximum span of human life is reduced to only one hundred years!' Pāṇini's object 'to fix the rules and correct improprieties' is supported by Kātyāyana referring to the *Ashṭādhyāyī* as *sādhvanuśāsana śāstra* 'the book of correct instruction' (*vārttika*, I.1.44. 14; 1.104). Possibly it contains an allusion to Pāṇini's ministering to the normal speech current in his time.