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51.NAVA NAGARA 6-2-89
Like Mahanagara , this city also cant be identified. Only guesswork is done be scholars.
52.Nikaaya 3-3-41 ; residence of monks?
Is it a dwelling place or anything else? No one is sure. In Ramayana meaning changed to a hiding place.
53.Nikaayya 3-1-29 dwelling place
54.Palada 4-2-142; a city
55.Paladii 4-2-110; a town
56.Parpa 5-4-10; wheeled chair
Parsu 6-3-117
Is it a weapon or a community of Persia (Iran) has been debated by scholars. Panini used it to denote a Sanga (group) who live by arms.
Paayya 3-1-129- a weight
Many different weights and measures such as Aacita,Drona, Kamsa, Asvina Kulija are found olny in Panini.
59.Phaanta 7-2-18; meaning, made or obtained without effort
60.Piiyuksaa 4-3-152, 4-2-80; 8-4-5 – a tree, variety of Plaksa
61.Potra 3-2-183; bent portion of plough
63.Pratiskasa 6-1-152; messenger
63.Pravani 5-4-160; weaver’s shuttle
Raajapratyenas 6-2-60; body guard or Aide de camp
65.Sancaayya 3-1-130; sacrifice
66.Sanghatitha 5-2-52; person whose attendance completes the quorum.
67.Suhita 2-2-11
68.Saalaatura 4-3-94; place name
Later commentators did not say where it is. Now we say this is the birth place of Panini, which is near Lahore in Pakistan.
69.Saphoru 4-1-70
70.Saarada 6-2-9; NEW, RECNT
71.Saarkara 4-2-83; 5-2-104; 5-2-105 , 5-3-107
This is a very interesting word. Panini used it in 4 different senses:-
A town, Honey, Sukkur in Pakistan, Sugar
Later Susruta used it for wine, Srauta sutras used it for melodious verses.
Even in Tamil we use Sakkarai for Sugar today. There is even a famous site in Egypt , Saqqara.
English word Sugar itself came from Sanskrit Sarkara (Sucre in European languages).
Froth and milk are also added by dictionary. Probably the meaning changed slowly. It may be confused with Chakra (wheel0.
The very first verse in the Rig Veda is by a poet named Madhu Chandas (Mr.Honey verse)!
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72.Tadagha 3-2-55; artificer = a skilled craftsman or inventor
73.Tuudi 4-3-94 , a place name
74.Udaja 3-3-69; herding cattle
75.Udasvit 4-2-19; curd
76.Upadhi 5-1-13; part of chariot
77.Varmati 4-3-94; place name; Bamiyan in Afghanistan?
78.Varnu 4-2-103, name of a country; Bannu? A river? Sun?
Vasna 5-1-51, 5-1-56, 5-4-13; sale price or value realised
Vraata 5-2-21, 5-3-113 aboriginal tribe
My research shows Vraata is the origin of Gypsies; outcaste Brahmins and other castes who refused to follow the Sastras. Vedas describe them going in groups in an unruly manner. They are accused of thefts; they were nomads Even Tamil literature refers to an outcaste Brahmin Nakkirar who was making bangles from conch shells.
Rig Veda refers to them in many places:
10-57-5; 10-34-8; 1-163-8; 3-26-2; 9-14-2; AV.2-9-2
Taittiriya Samhita 1-8-10-2
Raghuvamsa – 12-94, Sisupalavadham 4-34
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81.Vyakti 1-2-51
82.Vyaasraya 5-4-48
83.Yavaka 5-2-3; rice
It is a very interesting word. In Vedas it meant grains in general or rice or barley. But foreign translators misled the world by giving Barley as meaning everywhere. Caraka Samhita mentioned nine varieties of RICE under Yavaka. This gave name to Java in Indonesia.
Y changed to J is seen in several other words as well. The frequent reference to Yava in the Rig Veda shows that it is a predominantly agricultural society, exploding the myths of Max Muller gangs.
Conclusion
If the words are found elsewhere it differs from the meaning given by Panini. Most of them are untouched by Mahabhasya of Patanjali; did he leave them without explanation because everybody knew the meaning?
Most of the words are not used in classical or later literature.
The author DR AVANINDRA KUMAR of ‘Archaic Words in Panini’s Astadhyaayi’ (1981) concludes that dating Panini around 400 BCE is wrong and he must have lived very near the Vedic age, earlier than 4th century BCE.
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