India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.47

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s15.t1.47

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c8.s15.t1.47

(4) The shortening of names, unknown in the Vedic literature, and passed over in silence in the Gṛihyasūtras, was popular in the time of Pāṇini and the Buddhist literature. Pāṇini knows of it as a practice well-established both in time and over a wide area including eastern India (V.3.80).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit