India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.55

c7.s4.55

²¹ *Bhāradvāja* (IV.2.145). The Kāśikā states clearly that Bhāradvāja in this *sūtra* is not a *gotra* name but a country. As Pargiter has remarked Bhāradvāja is often mentioned in the *Mahābhārata* in connection with the upper part of the Ganges near the hills, and the Bhāradvājas were the people living in