India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s1.27

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s1.27

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c11.s1.27

*YAKSHAS*—In *sūtra* V.3.84 Pāṇini refers to Śevala, Supari, Viśāla, Varuṇa and Aryamā. These were names of tutelary deities. It has been shown above (*ante*, p. 188) that Viśāla was the name of a *Yaksha* according to the Sabhāparva, 10.16. Supari and Śevala also appear to be minor godlings, probably *Yakshas*. According to the Āṭanāṭiya Sutta (*Dīghanikāya*) Varuṇa was a *Yaksha* also. Aryamā, too, was most probably a minor deity of popular religion associated with child-birth.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit