History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c25.24
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c25.24
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No scholar Eastern or Western places Pāṇini later than 300 B. C. He knew Bhikṣu-sūtras composed by Pārāśarya and Karmanda¹⁰⁰³ and he tells us that the word 'maskarin'¹⁰⁰⁴ means parivrājaka. As sūtra works about 'bhikṣus' were composed before Pāṇini, this āśrama of bhikṣus must have been an established institution centuries before Pāṇini. Buddhism took over this mode of life (*pabbajjā* as the Pāli works say) from the brahmanical system.