Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s22.2

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¹ Hultzsch xxix-xxx; also *Nāgarī Pracāriṇī Patrikā* 46.2 pp. 135-46. Bāṇa (*HC*. pp. 28, 268 : tr. 20, 239) knows the use of the phrase in the good sense while the great advaita teacher Śankara is seen using it in an ironical sense (*BS*. I. 2.8) to indicate a ritualist. I see no irony in Patañjali on Pāṇini II, 4, 56 *pace* Kielhorn and Hultzsch.