India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.3

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s15.3

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c8.s15.3

*THEIR SPECIAL FEATURES*—Personal names in the time of Pāṇini show three special features, viz. (1) names as compounds of two units; (2) names formed by contraction, as *Devaka* for *Devadatta*; and (3) names derived from stars (*nakshatra-nāma*), as *Svātidatta*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit