India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s4.13

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s4.13

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c8.s4.13

*Śālabhañjikā* (the game of plucking the flowers of the Śāla trees in blossom); *Aśoka-pushpa-prachāyikā* (gathering of the flowers of the Aśoka trees in blossom), etc. The *Jātakas* also mention these sports as *uyyāna-kīḍikam* (IV.376). Patañjali mentions *śāktikī*, a woman warrior who specialised in the wielding of lance (IV.4.59; *Bhāshya*, IV.1.15; II. 209).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Jātaka — Pāli