[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.s2.3 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s2.3 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s2.3 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.3) The growing distinction of the religious student is indicated by the emergence of a new word \*Varṇī\*, unknown in the Saṁhitā and Brāhmaṇa literature. Pāṇini explains it as a synonym for Brahmachārin (\*Varṇād Brahmachāriṇi\*, V.2.134). According to the \*Kāśikā\* the students of only the three upper classes (\*traivarṇika\*) were called \*Varṇī\*. - [Previous: c8.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.2) - [Next: c8.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.4) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.5.2.134) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.3) · Pramāṇa