India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s1.7

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s1.7

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c8.s1.7

Pāṇini in a *sūtra* V.1.124 refers to the *bhāva* (nature) and *karma* (conduct) which should characterise a Brāhmaṇa (*Guṇavachana-Brāhmaṇādibhyaḥ karmaṇi cha*). These are indicated in the derivative expression *Brāhmaṇya*. Kātyāyana applies this rule to the four castes collectively to indicate the norm and the duties for which the system stands.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit