Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.130

c8.130

fourth century B.C. With a date in the fifth century B.C. all the evidence accommodates itself. With such a date accords the fact that Pāṇini knows the Persians as a warlike people¹ but, unlike later grammarians, never alludes to the Yavanas or Śakas as fighting races. The interval of a century between Pāṇini and Kātyāyana is not too short in view of the fact that "the oldest author on record who wrote on Pāṇini was Kātyāyana."²