India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.27

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s5.27

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c7.s5.27

20. *Prastha* (IV.2.122; IV.2.110). Pāṇini mentions Karkīprastha and Mālāprastha in *sūtras* VI.2.87-88, and in the *Gaṇa-pāṭha* adds: Maghī-, Makarī-, Karkandhū-, Śamī-, Karīra-, Kaṭuka-, Kavala-, Badarī, (VI.2.87), Śālā-, Śoṇā- (Sonepat), Drākshā-, Kshaumā-, Kāñchī-, Eka- and Kāma-. To these the *Kāśikā* adds: Indraprastha (well-known epic town), Kuṇḍa-, Hrada-, Suvarṇa-, Dākshi-and Māhaki, the latter two being stock-examples.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit