India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s4.9

c8.s4.9

Women also figured as students of Vedic schools (*charaṇas*, cf. *sūtra* IV.1.63 in which *jāti* includes both *gotra* and *charaṇa*), *e.g.* *Kaṭhī*, *Bahvṛichī*. Sometimes they were in-residents at the schools in what were called *chhāttrī-śālā* (VI.2.86).