India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s2.16

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s2.16

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c8.s2.16

The duties of the householder were to entertain the guests (*atithi*), to make suitable gifts on occasions (*vyaya* I.3.36; *upayoga*, I.3.32), to perform the family sacrifices (*yajñas*) and offer due worship to the ancestors (*śrāddha*, IV.3.12).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit