India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.58
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.58
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(8) *PĀṆINI’S EFFORT*—‘He then laboured incessantly and put forth all his power of mind.’ It is almost a literal translation of Patañjali’s remark about Pāṇini taking great pains in making his *sūtras*: *Pramāṇa-bhūta āchāryaḥ mahatā yatnena sutraṁ praṇayati sma* (I.1.1; I.39). There can be no doubt about Pāṇini putting forth supreme effort to produce a work of such comprehensive nature and brevity as the *Ashṭādhyāyī*.