India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.24
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.24
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c12.s1.24
Pāṇini mentions the phrase *asūryaṁ-paśyā* applied to women who lived in the seclusion of the palace where they could not see even the sun. The commentators interpret the term as *rājədārāḥ* or the royal harem, which corresponds to Aśoka's *orodhana* (Skt. *avarodhana*).