History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.22

v6.c82.22

Pāṇini employs the word kāla in his sūtras many times, but in the sense of time in general or the divisions of time or proper time Patañjali on Pāṇini III. 3. 167 (Kālasamayavelāsu tumun) quotes a half verse about Kāla, which is the same as the one quoted above from the Mahābhārata (in note 659) and which appears to have been cited by Patañjali as a well-known verse. In another place Patañjali while explaining Vārtika 2 on Pāṇini (II. 2. 5) states a very important theory about Kāla.