India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.68
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.68
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We have a suggestive word in Patañjali, *viz.* *Sābhā-sannayanaḥ*, ‘the honour derived from literary exposition in a *Sabhā*, (I.1.73; I.189). Pāṇini himself uses the word *sannayana* in the special sense of *sammānana* (I.3.36), *i.e.* bestowal of honour on successful exposition of a *śāstra* (cf. *Kāśikā* on *sammānana*, I.3.36).