India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s1.21
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s1.21
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c11.s1.21
(5) As a way out of the conundrum, Patañjali dismisses the case of the Mauryan images which were both for sale and for worship, and he points to contemporary images under actual worship (*yās-tvetāḥ saṁprati pūjārthāḥ tāsu bhavish-* *yati*) which were suitable examples of Pāṇini's rule and be designated as *Śiva*, *Skanda*, etc. (without *kan* suffix).¹