India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s15.t1.29
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s15.t1.29
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c8.s15.t1.29
As stated above the star names are unknown in Vedic literature, but became popular in the time of Pāṇini and later. For example, Visākhā, Punabbasu, Chittā, Poṭṭhapāda, Phaggunī, Phussa and Tissa or Upatissa occur in the *Jātakas*; to which may be added Phaguna, Phagulā, Tisaka, Upasijha (=Upasiddhya), Sijhā, Pusa, Pusaka, Pusinī, Bahula (cf. Pāṇini's Bahula), Sātila (=Svātigupta, or -datta). Asāḍha, Mūla, Poṭhaka, Poṭhadevā (=Proshṭhadevī), Rohiṇī or Rohā, etc., from Sanchi; and Bharanideva, Anurādhā and Sonā (=Śravaṇa) from Bharhut (Lüders' *List*, 784, 874).