India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.8
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.8
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c6.8
This is shown, for example, by his rules applied to the accent, or the lengthening of the vowels in cases of calling from a distance (*durād-dhūte*), salutation (*pratyabhivāde*), and in the case of questions and answers (*pari-praśna*); or more specially, in his survey of place-names, and names of *charaṇas*, *gotras* and *janapadas*, for purposes of derivative formations which must have served an intensely practical need.