India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s1.4

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s1.4

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c8.s1.4

The term *Jāti* seems to have a more comprehensive sense so as to include both *gotra* and *charaṇa* indicative of natural and cultural lineage as implied in *sūtra* II.1.63 (*Katara-katamau jāti-paripraśne*). Patañjali explains *jāti* in this extended sense (*gotraṁ cha charaṇaiḥ saha*, IV.1.63), citing as its examples the Kaṭha and Kalāpa *charaṇas* (cf. also *sūtra* V.3.93). Evidently the *gotras* and *charaṇas* were fast developing their separate entity as *jātis*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit