India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s2.11
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s2.11
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c8.s2.11
Kātyāyana also introduces a new feature, viz. naming occasional students after their subjects, or vows (special disciplines adopted by them), e.g. *Māhānāmnika*, one studying the Mahānāmnī hymn (a kind of Sāman, cf. *Gobhila Gṛihyasūtra*, quoting *Rauruki Brāhmaṇa*); *Ādityavratika*, a student who had consecrated himself to the vow of mastering the *Āditya Sāma* (cf. *Jaiminīya Upanishad Brāhmaṇa*), *Avāntara-dīkshī* (one who enters upon the vow of studentship for an intermediate period), and *Tilavratī* (probably the vow of studentship to last through life, such as that of the *naishṭhika Brahmachārī*).