India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.14

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s4.14

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c7.s4.14

8. *Pāraskara* (VI.1.157). This is mentioned in the *gaṇa* Pāraskara-prabhṛiti. Patañjali treats it as a country (*Pāraskaro deśaḥ*, III.96). The name corresponds to Thara-Pārkara (Thara being the Sindhi form of Thala meaning dry country or desert, as opposed to Kachchha or *jāṅgala* country), one of the biggest districts of Sindh which once denoted the whole of its south-eastern part up to the coast of the Great Rann of Kachchha or Kachchha-Iriṇa.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit