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4.10 Mountain (c) was known as Tri-kūta from at least the third century A.D., as the evidence collected by Mirashi and others establishes (4.7c). Our acceptance of it as the mountain intended, or originally intended, in the tradition preserved by the sīkā will not, therefore, be incompatible with the date of the Tīkā (Aklujkar 1982:3, 6, n. 4). It is also a mountain of the Dakşiņā-patha, so its acceptance will not go against the expression dākṣiṇātyesu of verse 485 (see note 3). We know that Northern scholars, litterateurs, and their works reached the southern part of India through the territory adjacent to this mountain. Also, if we assume that in the sīkā author's perception Lankā was situated near this mountain (4.8, note 27), we will have accounted not only for the presence of Rāvana by the side of Tri-kūţa in his statement but we will also have arrived at a hypothesis that scholars such as Shah and Sankalia, interested in . determining the location of Vālmīki's Lankā, have independently developed (cf. Cardona 1978:97).
5.1 Taking parvata in its usual sense of ‘mountain', we thus arrive at two likely locations for the retrieval of vyākaraṇāgama: Śrī-parvata and Tri-kūta. Both of these agree with contextual indications such as dākṣiṇātyeşu; were well known in the period (the early centuries of the Christian era) to which the concluding verses of the Vākyakānda belong; are likely to have been visited by Candra whether he started from Kashmir (as in the RT account) or returned from Simhala (as in the Tibetan accounts); had excellent potential for preserving the vyākaraṇāgama manuscripts as areas of pilgrimage (Katre 1954:25-26); and were frequented by followers of both Brahmanism and Buddhism,
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| SR No. | 269664 |
| Book Title | Paninian Studies |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ashok Aklujkar |
| Publisher | Ashok Aklujkar |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 47 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Article |
| File Size | 4 MB |