India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s5.12

c8.s5.12

*SAMYUKTA*—*Jñāti* and *Saṁyukta* occur in the same *sūtra* (VI.2.133), the latter formed a smaller social unit than the former. The *Kāśikā* says that the *saṁyuktas* included relations on the wife's side only, as brother-in-law and others (*saṁyuktāḥ strī-sambandhinaḥ śyālālayaḥ*), which means that the wife's *jñātis* were the *saṁyukta* relations of the husband. Among *saṁyuktas* Pāṇini himself mentions *śvaśura-śvaśrū*, *i.e.* father-in-law and mother-in-law (I.2.71), and *śvaśurya* or brother-in-law (IV.1.137).