The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c40.s7.t3.77

v2.c40.s7.t3.77

⁴ ii. 3. 53; iv. 2. 16, 4. 3; vi. 1. 139. The Paribhāṣās referred to neither prove the thesis nor have validity for Pāṇini. They do not appear in the Mahābhāṣya, but in the Kāçikā (7th cent. A.D.). The absurdity of the suggestion of Pāṇini’s knowledge would be increased if we accepted Charpentier’s claim (*ZII.* ii. 140 ff.) that he lived not later than 550 B.C., since he knew the title of Kamboja King, which was extinct after the death of Kambyses (= Kamboja King, title of older Achaemenidai). But this rests on a number of conjectures, all unproved and all most implausible.