India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t2.41
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s6.t2.41
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c8.s6.t2.41
Kauṭilya's sentence, *tasya svadeśo vyākhyānam Kāpiśāyanam*, supplies the needed commentary on Pāṇini's *Kāpiśāyana* which must have been the name of the reputed wines from that region. That Kāpiśī was an emporium for this class of drinks is also proved by the recent archaeological discoveries at this site of numerous glass flasks, fish-shaped wine jars and drinking cups which were used in the wine trade many centuries after Pāṇini. (Cf. J. Hackin, *Recherches Archéologiques á Begram*, 1939, pp. 9-10, plates XVII-XIX).