Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c10.8

c10.8

⁵ In the so-called Pâṇinîya Śikshâ the expression Saurâshṭrikâ nârî or "a woman of Surâshṭra" occurs. But this should by no means be regarded as showing that Pâṇini was acquainted with Surâshṭra. The Pâṇinîya Sikshâ cannot be the work of Pâṇini, for the author of that treatise begins by stating that he is going to explain Sikshâ according to the views of Pâṇini and ends with a few verses in praise of the great grammarian Besides, the author notices the Prâkṛit dialects to which there is no allusion whatever in Pâṇini’s great work and writes in verse. Grammatical treatises in verse are later than those in the form of Sûtras. The Pâṇinîya Sikshâ therefore must have been composed long after Pâṇini.