India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.t1.10

c8.s13.t1.10

*THE EASTERN SPORTS*—Pāṇini knows of the sports of Eastern India (*Prāchāṁ krīḍā*, VI.2.74), for which he frames proper grammatical formations (II.2.17, sport-denoting words form a *nitya* compound, with *ṇvul* suffix). As examples the *Kāśikā* mentions the following: *Uddālaka-pushpa-bhañjikā*, *Vīraṇa-pushpa-prachāyikā*, *Śāla-bhañjikā*, *Tāla-bhañjikā* (*Kāśikā* on VI.2.74, III.3.109 and II.2.17). Rule VI.2.74 regulating the accents in the compound-names of these sports shows that Pāṇini was acquainted with the institutions of social life and national sports of the remote regions of eastern India.