India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s5.21

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s5.21

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c8.s5.21

The family system was called *gārhapata*, of which Pāṇini cites the example *Kuru-gārhapatam* (VI.2.42), *i.e.* the family-system in the Kuru country, to which Kātyāyana adds another example, *viz.* *Vṛiji-gārhapatam*, the family-system in the Vṛiji country.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit