page_title: Salatura
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caption_attribution_description: English: Xuan Zang Statue at Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, China
context_page_description: Śalātura was the birthplace of the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini who is considered to the oldest grammarian whose work has come down to modern times. In an inscription of Siladitya VII of Valabhi, he is called Śalāturiya, which means "man from Salatura". This means Pāṇini lived in Salatura of ancient Gandhara, which likely was near modern Lahor, a small town at the junction of the Indus and Kabul Rivers, 20 miles north west of the Attock Bridge.
  According to the CE 646 book Great Tang Records on the Western Regions of 7th-century Chinese scholar Xuanzang, there was a town called Suoluoduluo on the Indus where Pāṇini was born, and he composed the Qingming-lun. He mentioned that a statue of Panini was in existence there.
  Within the city of F'o-lo-tu-lo was a tope where an arhat had converted a disciple of Panini. Five hundred
  years after the Buddha's decease a great arhat from Kashmir in his travels as an apostle arrived at this place. Here he saw a brahmin teacher chastising a young pupil: in reply to the arhat's question the teacher said he beat the boy for not making progress in etymology.
context_section_description: Śalātura was the birthplace of the Sanskrit grammarian  Pāṇini who is considered to the oldest grammarian whose work has come down to modern times. In an inscription of Siladitya VII of Valabhi, he is called Śalāturiya, which means "man from Salatura". This means Pāṇini lived in Salatura of ancient Gandhara, which likely was near modern Lahor, a small town at the junction of the Indus and Kabul Rivers, 20 miles north west of the Attock Bridge.
  According to the CE 646 book Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (大唐西域記) of 7th-century Chinese scholar Xuanzang, there was a town called Suoluoduluo on the Indus where Pāṇini was born, and he composed the Qingming-lun (Sanskrit: Vyākaraṇa). He mentioned that a statue of Panini was in existence there.
  Within the city of F'o (or Sha)-lo-tu-lo was a tope where  an arhat had converted a disciple of Panini. Five hundred 
  years after the Buddha's decease a great arhat from Kashmir in  his travels as an apostle arrived at this place. Here he saw a  brahmin teacher chastising a young pupil : in reply to the arhat's  question the teacher said he beat the boy for not making progress in etymology. The arhat smiled pleasantly and in explanation said — You must have heard of the treatise on Etymology made by the rishi Panini and given by him to the world for  its instruction. The brahmin replied— "He was a native of this  city; his disciples admire his excellences, and his image is still  here". To this the arhat answered — This boy of yours is that rishi. He added that in his previous existence Panini had devoted all his energies to worldly learning but that from some good Karma he was now the teacher's son. 
  Panini describes in great detail the local accents used for the names of wells north and south of Vipasha (modern Beas) river. He also mentions the Yavanas, which is taken to be Greeks (Ionians).
  Prof. Ahmad Hasan Dani, the late Pakistani Sanskritist stated in a letter that the village has shifted and the old village was 3 km to the west of the main road, where there was a big mound in ancient times. The mound has since been levelled down.
caption: Xuan Zang Statue at Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang, China
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