India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s3.19

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s3.19

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c9.s3.19

Light is thrown on Pāṇini's *ajapatha* by the *Bṛihatkathā ślokasaṁgraha* describing *ajapatha* during the coarse of a journey to Suvarṇabhūmi as a very narrow goat-track which could not be crossed by two persons from opposite sides (*Bṛihatkathā ślokasaṁgraha*, XVIII.416; Sylvain Lèvi, 'Ptolémée, la Niddesa et la Bṛihatkathā', *Etudes Asiatique*, Vol. II, pp. 1-55, Paris 1925). Narrow tracks leading over high mountains and defiles were negotiated with the help of goats and rams to transport merchandise.

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Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha — Budhasvāmin, Sanskrit