Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s1.52

c32.s1.52

7 Knowledge of Pāṇini does not go against the 300 B.C. date of K. (See *ante*, p 33, *n.*). Also note the pre-Pāṇinean use (Cf. Macdonell, HSL., p. 267 in the A. of *nāma ākhyāta, upasarga* and *nipāta* (II. 10). In other words, Pāṇini's terms had not become established fully as in the time of Patañjali and later