India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s9.12
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s9.12
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¹ We are indebted to Patañjali for preserving two important architectural terms, viz., *āmalakī* and *valabhī* (Bhāshya, VI.2.82; III.132) denoting the pinnacle and the cornice-mouldings respectively, which figure so prominently in the earliest representations of buildings in the sculpture of Bharhut and Sanchi.