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# India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s7.2

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s7.2

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### [c8.s7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s7.2)

These studies were cultivated at important educational centres and attracted brilliant pupils gifted with practical mental bias who must have found in them openings for a useful career in later life. Takshaśilā was one such reputed centre at which Jīvaka, the royal physician of king Bimbisāra received his education.

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## Cites (1)

- [Takṣaśilā](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.taxila)

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