The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.15

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⁴ Bhandarkar, *Early History of the Dekkan*, 2nd ed., in *Bomb. Gaz.* (1896), vol. i, part i, p. 139. I accept the view of Professors Goldstücker and Bhandarkar concerning the antiquity of Pāṇini and Kātyāyana as necessarily resulting from the ascertained date of Patañjali, 150 B. C. In an essay, *Systems of Sanskrit Grammar*, published Poona, 1915, with the permission of the University of Bombay, Shripad Krishna Belvalkar, M.A., Ph.D., remarks (p. 18) that there is nothing in Pāṇini's Ashṭadyāyi inconsistent with his having flourished in the seventh century B. C. He believes in this early date, while admitting that none of the arguments are decisive when taken singly, and on p. 15 gives 700 to 600 B. C., 'as near an approximation to Pāṇini's time as, in our present state of knowledge, or rather want of knowledge, we are likely to get.'