India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.51

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s1.51

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c12.s1.51

Specific mention is made of *śauṇḍika*, or income derived from excise (*Śuṇḍikādibhyo'ṇ*, IV.3.76). Kauṭilya states that the excise department was maintained as a State monopoly. Special regulations are given there to control the revenue from drinking booths. *Śuṇḍika* was the name of distilling plant, so called from the elongated condenser tube (*śuṇḍikā*) attached to the pot. Several specimens of them have been found at Takshaśīlā from Kushāṇa levels.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
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