India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s7.16

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s7.16

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c8.s7.16

(5) *Kshetriyach*. It is mentioned several times in the *Atharvaveda*, which scholars take to be the name of a special disease. Indian commentators understand it in the sense of hereditary disease (*Vedic Index*, I.211). Pāṇini throws light on its meaning in the following *sūtra*:

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