 This means Panini lived in Salatura of ancient Gandhara, which likely was near Lahor, a town at the junction of Indus and Kabul rivers, which falls in the Swabi District of modern Pakistan.According to the memoirs 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