India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s5.10

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s5.10

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c8.s5.10

SANĀBHI—Sanābhi is equal to *samāna nābhi*, *i.e.* those connected with a common *nābhi* or umbilical cord (VI.3.85), thus bringing within its fold all the blood-relations of different degrees. In the *Ṛigveda* I.139.9, the seer Paruchchhepa says: our *nābhis* (umbilical cords) join us to Manu, Atri and Kaṇva of old (*Asmākaṁ teshu nābhayaḥ*). In *Manu*, *Sanābhya* is taken as *Sapiṇḍa* (cf. *Kullūka*, V.184).

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Linked texts (3)

Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit