India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t2.14

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s6.t2.14

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c8.s6.t2.14

*INVITATIONS*—Pāṇini refers to two kinds of invitations to dinner, *viz. nimantraṇa* and *āmantraṇa* (III.3.161). Patañjali explains the former as an invitation to take food at sacrifices (*havya*) and *śrāddha* (*kavya*), the acceptance of which was obligatory. *Āmantraṇa*, however, was an invitation to a feast extended to friends and relations and therefore less formal (*āmantraṇaṁ kāmāchāraḥ*, II.165).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit