India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s3.43
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s3.43
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c11.s3.43
(2) *Indra-dṛishṭam*; the senses were 'seen' or experienced by Indra. Yāska ascribes this opinion to Aupamanyava (*Idam darśanād iti Aupamanyavaḥ*), a view also expressed in the *Aitareya Āraṇyaka* (*Idam adarśam tasmād Indro nāma*, III.14). This Aupamanyava was a grammarian mentioned by Yāska as holding a different view about the onomatopoeic derivation of names (III.18). It is likely that Pāṇini took this etymology from Aupamanyava. *Idam* in the above two citations stands for the non-self, or senses.