India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.9

c7.s5.9

3. *Grāma* (IV.2.142). Patañjali mentions a *grāma* called Ishukāmaśamī, both eastern and western (*pūrva, apara* (VI.1.85, III.62) to which the *Kāśikā* adds the name Kṛishnamṛittikā (VII.3.14), both situated in Eastern India (*Prāchām*).