[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.s3.4 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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\*. - [Previous: c8.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s3.3) - [Next: c8.s4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s4.1) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s3) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.4.3.125) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s3.4) · Pramāṇa