 Patañjali calls Pāṇini "Dākṣīputra" (meaning "son of Dākṣī") at several places in the "Mahābhāṣya".Rambhadracharya suggests that the name of his father was "Paṇina", from which the name Pāṇini could be grammatically derived.In an inscription of Siladitya VII of Valabhi, he is called "Śalāturiya", which means "man from Salatura".