India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s1.11

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s1.11

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c9.s1.11

In the chapter *Sāsya devatā* (IV.2.24-33) Pāṇini mentions the Vedic deities of agriculture, *Śuna* and *Sīra* (IV.2.32). According to Yāska these represented Vāyu and Āditya, but according to others 'the share and the plough,' (*Vedic Index*, II.386). Oblations to these agricultural deities were known in the time of Pāṇini.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit