India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.61
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.61
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(11) *PĀṆINI'S WORK, A COMPLETE DIGEST*—‘It contained everything known from the first till then, without exception, respecting letters and words.’ Pāṇini’s work is rightly described by Patañjali as a vast ocean of science (*mahat śāstraugha, Bhāshya*, I.1.1, I.40); also vast and well-done (*Pāṇinīyaṁ mahat-suvihitam*, IV.2.66; II.285). He also describes how Pāṇini’s work was based upon the material available in the different schools of Vedic learning so that it became acceptable to all of them (*Sarva-veda-pārishadaṁ hīdaṁ śāstram, Bhāshya*, II.1.58; I.400).