India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.47

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.47

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c8.s14.47

24-25. *Proshṭhapadā*, a double asterism called *Proshṭhapade* and *Proshṭhapadāḥ* (I.2.60), and also in the masculine gender as *Proshṭhapada* (V.4.120), a form used in the *Tait. Saṁhitā*, and also by Pāṇini when speaking of the deity of this asterism (IV.2.35) to whom religious homage (*bhakti*) was paid by its devotees.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit