India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s3.2

c12.s3.2

A big army required, besides its fighting services, a hierarchy of civil officers to manage its organisation, *e.g.* clerks, accountants and men in charge of supply. The accountants in charge of infantry and chariots are named as *patti-gaṇaka* and *ratha-gaṇaka* with a special suffix to denote their functions in connection with military accounts (V.1.129, *Udgātrādi gaṇa*). *Pṛitanā* is obviously mentioned as a Vedic word in *pṛitanāshāṭ* (VIII.3.109).