Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Indian rupee pulled back from its three-week low in afternoon trade on Thursday helped by a slight recovery in the euro and domestic equities, although dollar demand from oil and gold importers is likely to limit the recovery. * At 2:18 p.m., the partially convertible rupee was at 49.59/60 per dollar, after touching a low of 49.7850, weakest since Sept. 26, and 0.9 percent weaker from Wednesday's close of 49.15/16. * Doubts about the euro zone's ability to come up with a comprehensive plan to solve its debt crisis hammered equity markets and hit the euro on Thursday, underlying investor impatience with political wrangling. * The euro was trading at $1.3747, up from the day's low of $1.3674, but lower compared with $1.3840 at end of rupee trade on Wednesday. * The index of the dollar against six major currencies was at 77.129 points, sharply above 76.705 points on Wednesday. * The local benchmark share index was down 1.3 percent after falling to nearly 2 percent earlier. (Reporting by Aditya Phatak; Editing by Subhadip Sircar)

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