India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.17
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s4.17
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in the north. Kachchha was historically connected with Sindh forming its province in the seventh century when Yuan Chwang visited the country. Cunningham says that Kachchha and Parkar have always been linked together (*Anc. Geog.*, p. 347). Pāṇini also refers to the names of towns ending in Kachchha (IV.2.126), which were mostly situated along the coast from Bhṛigu-Kachchha to the province of Kachchha. The inhabitants of the Kachchha *janapada* were known as Kāchchhaka, and a reference to their peculiarities in speech, laughing and dress has already been noted.