India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.12

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s5.12

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c7.s5.12

6-9. *Kūla, Sūda, Sthala, Karsha* (VI.2.129), endings applied to names of villages according to the *Kāśikā* (*grāmanāmadheyāni*) which gives the following examples: Dākshikūla, Māhakikūla; Devasūda, Bhājīsūda; Dākshikarsha. Kalhaṇa refers to *sūda* as a place-name ending (*Rāj.* I.157, 167). *Karsha* of Pāṇini might be the same as *karshū* (pit or hollow) of older literature (*Drāhyāyaṇa Gṛihya*, III.2.31; *Khādira*, III.5.36).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Rājataraṅgiṇī — Kalhaṇa, Sanskrit