[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) › c6.89 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c6.89 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c6.89 - **Language:** English ### [c6.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.89) An intensive study of the \*Kāśikā\*, reveals its immense indebtedness to the \*Mahābhāshya\*. In the first verse the author explicitly states his dependence on the \*Bhāshya\* and also on an earlier commentary which unfortunately is left unnamed (\*Vṛittau Bhāshye\*). Even the perusal of a few \*sūtras\* will show how completely the \*Kāśikā\* relied on Patañjali for its material and the stock of its examples. The numerous illustrations in the \*Bhāshya\* on IV.3.42 are bodily taken by the author of the \*Kāśikā\*, who did his work intelligently and not as a mere copyist of the older material. In discussing the meaning of Prāchya-Bharata (II.4.66) the \*Kāśikā\* replaces \*Auddālakāyana\* of Patañjali by \*Ārjunāyana\*, the name of a tribe nearer to its own time. (\*cf.\* reference to Ārjunayāna in the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta). - [Previous: c6.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.88) - [Next: c6.90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.90) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.4.3.42) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c6.89) · Pramāṇa