India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s3.4

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s3.4

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c8.s3.4

EXOGAMY—Marriage must have been contracted outside the *gotra*. Pāṇini in one place refers to the formation of compound words showing two *gotras* united in marital relationship. (*maithunikā*) (IV. 3. 125). Patañjali instances (1) *Atri-Bharadvājikā*, (2) *Vasishṭha-Kaśyapikā*, (3) *Bhṛigu-Aṅgira-sikā*, (4) *Kutsa-Kuśikikā*, and (5) *Garga-Bhārgavikā*, *i.e.* marriages contracted between two different *gotras* jointly designated (II.4.62; I.492). Most of these *gotra* names occur in Pāṇini's *sūtras*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit