India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.6

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s5.6

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c7.s5.6

2. *Pura* (IV.2.122), which is mentioned by Pāṇini as an ending in the following names of towns, e.g., Arishṭapura (Pāli Ariṭṭhapura, a city in the kingdom of Śivi in Vāhīka), Gauḍapura (VI.2.100, Gauḍa in Maldah in Bengal); Hāstinapura (the well-known epic town in Meerut district), Phalakapura (Phillaur on the Sutlej in Jullundhar district.); Mārdeyapura (VI.2.101), probably Maṇḍāwar in Bijnaur district where the ancient route to Hastinapur crossed the Gaṅgā on its opposite bank.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit