India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.76

c7.s5.76

With reference to Pāṭaliputra it is interesting to note that it was a vast metropolis with two divisions which the *Kāśikā* records as Pūrva-Pāṭaliputra (eastern, on the Ganges) and Apara-Pāṭaliputra (western, on the Son, VII.3.14). A citizen of Pāṭaliputra was called Pāṭaliputraka (*Ropadhetoḥ Prāchām*, IV.2.123).