India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.13

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.13

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c8.s14.13

Pāṇini's reference to *vidhun-tuda* (III.2.35) points to the belief in the legend of Rāhu causing a lunar eclipse, also referred to in Vedic literature (*Vedic Index*, I.254; also *Tāṇḍya Br.* Caland, VI.6.8).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit