India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s2.4

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s2.4

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c8.s2.4

The preceptor or *Āchārya* initiated the young student. Every pupil became attached to his preceptor by a formal ceremony which Pāṇini calls *upanayana* and *āchārya-karaṇa* (I.3.36). The *Kāśikā* explains it as follows:

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit