India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.56

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.56

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c8.s14.56

Pāṇini uses the word *lagna* in the sense of *sakta* (VII.2.18) and not in the technical sense of *rāśīnām udaya*. According to Dr. Kaye the system of the zodiac scale of twelve divisions replaced the *nakshatra* division of the ecliptic at a fairly late date, probably about 450 A.D. (Kaye, The Nakshatras and Precession, *Ind. Ant.* Vol. 50, p. 45).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit