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India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.11

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s15.t1.11

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c8.s15.t1.11

(7) Names ending in *mitra* (VI.2.165). These were only few in Vedic literature, but are very popular in the post-Pāṇinian period, *e.g.* Sarvamitta (*Jāt.* V.13), Jitamitta (*Jāt.* I.37), Chandamitta (*Jāt.* I.41), etc. The later epigraphical records¹ show abundant use of *mitra*-ending names.

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