India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.21

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.21

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c8.s8.21

Whereas women enjoyed themselves with various garden sports as *śālabhañjikā* implied in the *sūtra Prāchāṁ krīḍāyām* (V.2.74), the male members skilled in the use of arms participated in jousts organised for the sake of pleasure (*praharaṇa-krīḍā*, IV.².57). Music, both vocal (*gāyana*, III.¹.147) and instrumental (*vādaka*), practised on the lute and other percussion instruments, also formed part of the usual pastime of a cultured society.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit