India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s2.18
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c10.s2.18
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c10.s2.18
(2) *Branding of kine with numerals*. Pāṇini refers to the marking of certain signs on the ears of cattle to indicate ownership. Among several signs thus branded (*sūtra* VI.3.115), the terms *ashṭa* and *pañcha* stood for the written figures of the numerals 8 and 5 (Goldstücker, *Pāṇini*, p. 44).