India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s1.7

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s1.7

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c7.s1.7

Places were also named after the nature of their polity. Thus Pāṇini divides *janapadas* into two classes, firstly *janapadas* under monarchy (*Ekarāja*) enumerated in *sūtras* IV.1.168-176; and secondly *janapadas* as republics (*Saṅgha*), such as Vāhīka where flourished the Āyudhajīvī Saṅghas (Military Republics).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit