India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.29

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.29

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c12.s1.29

*CHAMBERLAIN.*—This official is called *Dauvārika* (VII.3. 4, *Dvārādināṁ cha*; *dvāre niyuktaḥ*). His importance is indicated by his pay fixed at 24,000 silver *kārshāpaṇas* in the *Arthaśāstra* (*dauvārika . . . . sannidhātāraḥ chaturviṁśati-sāhasrāḥ*, V.3).

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit