India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.19

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.19

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c8.s14.19

MONTH—The month consisted of the usual two *pakshas* of which the *Amāvāsyā* and the *Paurṇamāsī* formed the closing days. Pāṇini refers to the opening day of a *paksha* as *pakshati* (V.2.25) which the *Kāśikā* takes as a synonym of the *Pratipad* day.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit