India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.32

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.32

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c8.s14.32

¹ The number of stars in the Kṛittikā is counted seven in the *Taitt. Br.* III.1.41, *viz.* Ambā, Dulā, Nitatnī, Abhrayantī, Meghayantī, Varshayantī, Chupuṇikā. In classical literature this number is six, from which comes the epithet *Shāṇmāturaḥ* as the name of Kārttikeya. Pāṇini's *sūtra mātur-ut-saṁkhyā*.... (IV.1.115) is illustrated by *Dvai-mātura* and *Shāṇ-mātura*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit