The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.54

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¹ In the so-called Pâninîya S'ikshâ the expression Saurâshtrikâ nâri or "a woman of Surâshtra" occurs. But this should by no means be regarded as showing that Pânini was acquainted with Surâshtra. The Pâninîya S'ikshâ cannot be the work of Pânini; for the author of that treatise begins by stating that he is going to explain S'ikshâ according to the views of Pânini and ends with a few verses in praise of the great grammarian. Besides, the author notices the Prâkrit dialects to which there is no allusion whatever in Pânini's great work and writes in verse. Grammatical treatises in verse are later than those in the form of Sûtras. The Pâninîya S'ikshâ therefore must have been composed long after Pânini.