India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s5.13

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s5.13

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c8.s5.13

*FAMILY (KULA)*—The family was considered to be the fundamental unit or nucleus of society in ancient India. Society was an aggregate of families, each comprising several members under the headship of the father, or in his absence the eldest brother, and as far as possible partaking of a common household. Pāṇini calls family a *kula* (IV.1.139; IV.2.96).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit