Rishi Panini hears Shiva’s Damaru
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When Shiva plays his damaru, his drum of consciousness, the Shiva Sutras, the phonemes of Speech, are heard by the great master of sacred speech, Rishi Panini, on the night of Maha Shivaratri. This is the supreme inspiration and foundation of his unequaled composition, the Ashtadhyayi.