India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s1.3

c11.s1.3

Indra is also referred to as Marutvān (IV.2.32). Pāṇini refers to Prajāpati under the symbolical name of *Ka*. Patañjali says that *Ka* is not a pronoun, but the proper name of a deity (*saṁjñā chaishā tatrabhavataḥ*, II.275), so that the dative case of *Ka* would be *Kāya*, not *kasmai*. Reference is also made to the deity called Vāstoshpati who presided over a house or homestead and was as old as the *Ṛigveda*. Pāṇini's mention of Gṛihamedha (IV.2.32) under the context 'This is its deity' (IV.2.24) shows that Gṛihamedha was also looked upon as a deity. In the same context mention is also made of Soma, Vāyu, Mahendra and Apāmnaptṛi (IV.2.27), which last was a name of Agni as sprung from water to whom special oblations were offered.