[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c7.s5.78 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.78 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s5.78 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s5.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c7.s5.78) The above accounts of Greek historians do not seem to suffer from exaggeration, as only in the lists attached to the two \*sūtras\* IV.2.75 and IV.2.80 we have about 500 names, and these may be further augmented if we add the testimony of the other \*gaṇas\*, as those headed by Suvāstu (IV.2.77), Varaṇa (IV.2.82), Madhu (IV.2.86), Utkara (IV.2.90), Naḍa (IV.2.91), Kattri (IV.2.95), Nadī (IV.2.97), Kāśi (IV.2.116), Dhūma (IV.2.127), Karkī (VI.2.87), Cihana (VI.2.125), etc. This gives us a substantial list of about 750 town names, a case of curious coincidence with Greek evidence. Probably both Pāṇini and the Greek geographers depended on a common source or tradition. The grammatical literature is now a valuable source of information regarding the old and forgotten cities of India. This literature like Yuan Chwang's \*Travels\* has preserved landmarks in the light of which arahaeological old sites may be verified. It may be further noted that certain names of tribes and \*gotras\* as recorded in the \*gaṇas\* (cf. Aśvādi, IV.1.110) point to places with which they were connected. - [Previous: c7.s5.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c7.s5.77) - [Next: c8.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s1.1) - [Up: c7.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c7.s5) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.4.1.110) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c7.s5.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c7.s5.78) · Pramāṇa