India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s5.18

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s5.18

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c8.s5.18

Family pedigrees also seem to be carefully preserved by counting the number of its generations from the original founder. *Sūtra*, II.1.19, *Saṁkhyā vaṁśyena*, states that a numeral may be prefixed to the name of an ancestor (*vaṁśya*) and the compound thus formed will indicate the number of generations descended from him. As an instance Patañjali cites *ekaviṁśati-Bhāradvājam*, meaning that there were twenty-one descendants in the line of Bhāradvāja (I.499).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit