[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c8.s2.11 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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\*). - [Previous: c8.s2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.10) - [Next: c8.s2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.12) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.11) · Pramāṇa