India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.31
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s4.31
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mejaya Parīkshit is stated in the *Mahābhārata* to have performed his sacrifice, is also noticed by Pāṇini (VIII.2.12). Pāṇini also refers to the householders' way of life obtaining amongst the Kurus (*Kuru-gārhapatam*, VI.2.42) as against the ascetic way. It seems to be akin to the Kuru-dhamma of the *Jātaka* of that name which insisted on the purity of family life and the cultivation of proper domestic relations and virtues (*Kurudhamma Jātaka*, Vol. III, No. 276), a way of life and philosophy that are reflected in the basic doctrine of the *Bhagavadgītā* expounded in Kurukshetra.