India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.44
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s15.t1.44
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c8.s15.t1.44
*RÉSUMÉ*—The following features of names in Pāṇini's time thus stand out: (1) The use of a personal name as distinct from a *gotra* name. A man was asked both his *nāma* and *gotra* (*Jāt.* VI.243, *nāma-gottañ cha puchchhi*); cf. also Virāṭa asking Yudhishṭhira his *gotra* and *nāma* (Virāṭaparva, 7.11). The Bhikkhus who took *pabbajjā* retained their personal names as well as *gotras* (*nānānāma*, *nānāgotta*, Vinayapiṭaka, B. C. Law, *Pāli Lit.* I. xiii).
Linked texts (3)
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Jātaka — Pāli
- Vinayapiṭaka — Pāli