India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s1.3

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s1.3

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c8.s1.3

Pāṇini twice uses the Vedic term *Varṇa* for caste (*Dharma-śīla-varṇāchcha*, V.2.132; VI.3. 84) which is more often referred to by the specific term *Jāti* adopted in later legal texts (II.1.63; VI.3.41).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit