India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s1.6
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s1.6
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c9.s1.6
In the post-Brāhmaṇical period the older word *kṛishṭi* must have been replaced by the more expressive *kṛishīvala*, 'one following agriculture as his profession,' formed by adding to *kṛishi* the new suffix *vala*.