India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.26

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.26

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c8.s14.26

¹ *Kṛittikā*. Referred to in the form *Kārttikī*, the full-moon day of Kṛittikā (IV.2.23). Pāṇini gives another name of *Kṛittikā* as *Bahula* (IV.3.34) which word came to signify the asterism of Pleiades on account of the knowledge that this constellation consisted of numerous stars. The *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* significantly remarks: *bhūyishṭhā yat Kṛittikāḥ* (II.1.2.3). *Bahula* and *Bhūyishṭha* are interchangeable terms

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Śatapathabrāhmaṇa — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit