India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s1.2

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s1.2

Society in his time was based on Varṇāśramadharma, i.e. on Castes and Āśramas or stages into which life was divided.