India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.72
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.72
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We may, however, note that in a *kārikā* of the *Bhāshya*, Pāṇini is referred to as a *kavi*: *tadakīrtitam-ācharitaṁ kavinā* (I.4.50; I.334). But the meaning of *kavi* is not necessarily a poet. Although the *Kāśikā* equates *kavi* with the *sūtra-kāra*, both Kaiyaṭa and Nāgeśa understand *kavi* not as a poet, but as one possessed of supreme wisdom (*medhāvī*).