India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s3.18

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s3.18

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c11.s3.18

Questioning a foreteller about future good luck was called *vipraśna*. The *sūtra Rādhīkashyor-yasya vipraśnaḥ* (I.4.39) deals with its linguistic form *e.g.* *Devadattāya īkshate*, 'the astrologer is busy calculating about the future of Devadatta'.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit