India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s2.9

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s2.9

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c8.s2.9

PERIOD—There is a general rule by which the student was to be named after the special circumstances of study (*Tadasya Brahmacharyam*, V.1.94). The maximum period of studentship is stated by Kātyāyana to be 48 years, the student concerned being called *ashṭā-chatvāriṁśaka* (also *ashṭā-chatvāriṁśī*). The same *vārttika* refers to *gaudānika* whose period of study ended by the performance of the *godāna* or hair-cutting ceremony (cf. *Manu*, II.65).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit