India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.41
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s15.t1.41
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c8.s15.t1.41
(d) Eliding the first part of the name, against Pāṇini's second (*uttarapada-lopa*) and then adding the same suffixes, Devadatta would give, *e.g.* Dattika, Dattila, Dattiya, Dattaka; or Devadatta might become Datta, and Deva without any suffix. (Cf. *Bhāshya* giving Bhāmā for Satyabhāmā, I.111).