India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.62
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.62
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Burnell truly points out that for the *Ashṭādhyāyī* to have gained such a position of authority, ‘it must have been vastly superior in the eyes of the Brāhmaṇas to all the numerous treatises which must have been in existence before Pāṇini’s time.’ (*Aindra School*, p. 38). Pawate has recently raised the question of Pāṇini’s borrowings from his predecessors, a point which deserves much further consideration (cf. *Structure of the Ashṭādhyāyī* by I. S. Pawate, Hubli). We find in the *Ṛiktantra*, a *Sāma Prātiśākhya* which Dr. Sūrya Kānt attributes to Audavraji some of Pāṇini’s *sūtras* quoted almost *verbatim* (cf. *Ṛiktantra*, *sūtras* 195-218).