India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t2.21

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s6.t2.21

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c8.s6.t2.21

MAIREYA—Maireya was a popular drink. The word is unknown in the *Brāhmaṇa* and *Āraṇyaka* literature, which suggests its origin in the post-Vedic period. The Buddha found its use so common as to lay down a prohibition against it. Pāṇini’s *sūtra* is *Aṅgāni maireye* (VI.2.70).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit