[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.s2.9 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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). - [Previous: c8.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.8) - [Next: c8.s2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.10) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2) ## Cites (2) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.5.1.94) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.65) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s2.9) · Pramāṇa