India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.8

c8.s6.8

In the above examples (*a*) and (*b*) distinguish between the meanings of *bhakshya* and *bhojya*, while (*c*) uses *bhakshya* as synonymous with food in general. It is this latter sense that holds good in Pāṇini's *sūtra* VII.3.69.