India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.32

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s4.32

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c7.s4.32

17. *Sālva.* Pāṇini mentions Sālva (IV.2.135), Sālveya (IV.1.169) and Sālvāvayava (IV.1.173) as three distinct *janapada* units which were monarchies. Of these Sālva seems to have been the parent state, Sālveya equal to Sālvaputra, a collateral branch, and Sālvāvayava, a bunch of kingly states which the enterprising Sālvas either brought under their conquest or planted during the course of their colonising activity. The last although confined to a limited geographical horizon in the central and north-eastern Punjab, were in relation to each other not geographically contiguous.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit