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India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.31

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s15.t1.31

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c8.s15.t1.31

(17) Names with *iya* suffix (=*ghan*, V.3.79) added as before, *e.g.* Deviya and Yajñiya. The *Jātakas* add Giriya (III. 322), Chandiya (=Chandakumāra, VI.137), Nandiya (II.199; same as Nandika, II.200, or Nandaka), Bhaddiya (=Bhadrasena, Bhadrakāra or Bhadrasāla, I.140; VI.135), Meghiya (=Meghakumāra, IV.95) and Sabhiya (VI.329), but they are rare in Bharhut and Sanchi inscriptions.

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