India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.41
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.41
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(4) *Rakshas*. By adding the *aṇ* suffix in a pleonastic sense (*svārthe*) prescribed by this very *sūtra* (V.3.117) we get the word form *Rākshasa*. They also appear to have been an actual people, probably of the north-west group and of the same racial character as the Piśāchas. The Rākshasas, Nāgas and the Piśāchas fight also in the Bhārata war on both sides (Pargiter, *J.R.A.S.*, 1908, p. 331). We find an important tribe named Rakshānis settled in Chagai district of North Baluchistan (*Imp. Gaz.*, X.117).