India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.40

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s5.40

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c7.s5.40

¹ *Kāpiśī* (IV.2.99). It was a town known for its wine *Kāpiśāyana* as already stated. According to Pliny Kāpiśī was destroyed by the Achaemenian emperor Cyrus (Kurush) in the sixth century B.C. It is identified with modern Begram, about 50 miles north of Kābul on the ground of a Kharoshṭhī inscription found there naming the city (Sten Konow, *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXII (1933), p. 11).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit