[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c6.72 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c6.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.72) 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\*). - [Previous: c6.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.71) - [Next: c6.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.73) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.72) · Pramāṇa