India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s3.46
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s3.46
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c11.s3.46
(5) *Indra-dattam*; 'assigned to their respective objects of enjoyment by Indra' (*ātmanā vishyebhyo dattaṁ yathā-yathaṁ grahaṇāya, Kāśikā*). The same view is found in the *Aitareya Up.*, describing the primeval Self as assigning to the senses their respective functions in the human person (*purushe*): 'He said to them: Enter into your respective abodes.' Pāṇini's *Indra-dattam* is in relation to this old legend.