India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.18

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.18

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c8.s8.18

In a group of phrases as *purusha-vyāghra*, *purusha-siṁha* (II.¹.56, *Upamitaṁ vyāghrādibhiḥ sāmānyāprayoge*) and *hastighna* (III.2.54), Pāṇini refers to the ideal of physical valour (*śakti*) for men.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit