India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s2.7

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s2.7

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c8.s2.7

Pāṇini uses the two terms *māṇava* and *antevāsin* for the pupils (VI.2.69). The former were also called *daṇḍa-māṇavas* (IV.3.130), probably from the staff they bore. The *māṇava* seems to have been a novice, as seen from the term *bāla* applied to him in the *Mātaṅga Jātaka*, which also calls him *daṇḍa-māṇava* (IV.379, 387).

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Jātaka — Pāli
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit