The History of Indian Literature c8.60

c8.60

cont:† † His name seems to point to the north-west (?). The scholiast on Páṇini [iv. 2. 117], at least, probably following the Mahábháshya, cites Śákala in connection with the Báhíkas; see also Burnouf, *Introduction à l'Hist. du Buddh.*, p. 620, ff. The passage in the *sútra* of Páṇini, iv. 3. 128, has no local reference [on the data from the Mahábháshya bearing on this point, see *I. St.*, xiii. 366, 372, 409, 428, 445]. On the other hand, we find Śákyas also in the Kosala country in Kapilavastu, of whom, however, as of the Śákáyanins in the Yajus, we do not exactly know what to make (see below). [The earliest mention of the word Śákala, in immediate reference to the Ṛik, occurs in a memorial verse, *yajnagáthá*, quoted in the Ait. Bráhm., iii. 43 (see *I. St.*, ix. 277).—For the name Śaiśiríya I can only cite the *pravara* section added at the close of the Áśvaláyana-Śrauta-Sútra, in which the Śaiśiris are mentioned several times, partly by themselves, partly beside and in association with the Śuṅgas.]