India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.31

c8.s14.31

6. *Tishya*. Besides the form *Tishya* (I.2.63; IV.3.34; VI.4.149), Pāṇini mentions its two other names, *Pushya* and *Siddhya* (*Pushya-Siddhyau nakshatre*, III.¹.116). The person born under this asterism was also called *Tishya* (IV.3.34), a common name in the *Jātakas* under the form Tissa, and also Phussa from Pushya.² In the *Arthaśāstra*, *Tishya* had been replaced by the form *Pushya*, which Patañjali also prefers (I.462; II.35). *Pushya* in preference to *Tishya* seems to be a feature of the post-Pāṇinean period.