India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.6

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.6

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c6.6

Pāṇini undertook a profound investigation of the spoken and the living language of his day. He applied the inductive method in discovering and creating his own material for purposes of evolving his grammatical system. As a trustworthy and competent witness of linguistic facts, he cast his net so wide that almost every kind of word in the language was brought in:

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