India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.75
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.75
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(ii) *TEXT*—The text of the *sūtras* has been handed down to us almost intact by the method of oral transmission by which Sanskrit learning through the ages has descended from generation to generation through a succession of teachers and pupils (*guru-śishya-pāramparya*) instead of being conserved in writing. This method of oral teaching of Pāṇini continued for many centuries and Yuan Chwang noticed it as prevailing in his time also: “And so from that time masters have received it and handed it down in its completeness for the good of the world.” (Siyuki, I.115).