India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s1.5

c7.s1.5

Pāṇini also instances places which have lent their names to persons as the places of their own residence (*nivāsa*), such as *Māthura*, or of their ancestors (*abhijana*, IV.3.90), such as *Saindhava*, 'one whose ancestors lived in Sindhu'. Besides persons, commodities may also be associated with places as their origin, e.g., the wine (*phalaja-madhu*) known as *Kāpiśāyana* which was known after the place of its origin called Kāpiśī (IV.2.99). Animals also were called sometimes after the places of their origin, e.g., *Rāṅkava* or *Rāṅkavāyaṇa*, a bull bred in the Raṅku country (IV.2.100); or *Kāchchha*, a bull of Kachchha country (IV.2.134). There may also be other associations of names with places under the general rule stated in the *sūtras* IV.2.92145 (*Śaishika*), e.g., *Kāśika*, 'the cloth woven at Kāśī' (IV.2.116). An assemblage of meanings can be seen in *Kāchchhaka* which used to denote (a) an inhabitant of Kachchha, (b) the turban (*chūḍā*) peculiar to its poeple, (c) their mannerisms in speech (*jalpita*) and laughing (*hasita*). The term *Saindhava* is also cited under this rule with reference to the above peculiarities of its people.