India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.17

c7.s5.17

Here we have four pairs of eight geographical names, preserved as grammatical examples from antiquity. A careful glance at the map of western India affords clue to their identification. Standing at the head of the Gulf of Cambay, we have to our left Pippalī-kachchha, the sea-coast of Pippalī, comprising the delta areas of Sābarmatī, Mahī, Narmadā and Tāptī rivers, of which the old name is still preserved in Pīplā or Rāj-Pīplā. To our right is the sea-coast of Kathiawar, literally equivalent of Dāru-kachchha (*Dāru*=*Kāshṭa*).