India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s5.27

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s5.27

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c8.s5.27

Pāṇini calls a friend *sakhi* (V.1.126), or *mitra* (V.4.150), and friendship *sakhyam* (*sakhyuḥ bhāvaḥ karma vā*, V.1.126), or also *saṃgataṁ*, comradeship (III.1.105). Pāṇini marks out a friend by his goodness of heart and the enemy by its wickedness (*Suhṛid-durhṛidau*, V. 4. 150). Friendship to last for a life-time is called *ajarya*. In the following interesting *sūtra* Pāṇini puts his seal of approval on the basic principle of friendship so often repeated in Sanskrit literature:

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit