India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s2.8
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s2.8
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c7.s2.8
Both Udīchya and Prāchya were taken as the home (*Lōka*) of standard Sanskrit both in Pāṇini’s time and earlier. In the time of Patañjali, however, this became contracted to Āryāvarta as the home of the *śishṭas* (persons proficint in the *śāstras*) whose language set its norm.