India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s1.13

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s1.13

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c8.s1.13

ŚŪDRA—Pāṇini refers to some Śūdras living within the pale of the Aryan society (*aniravasita*, II.4.10), implying that there were other Śūdras, probably aboriginal peoples, who were yet to be assimilated in the Aryan society.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit