India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.24

c7.s5.24

Adhikārma, Sañjīvārma, Madrārma, Aśmārma and Kajjalārma (VI.2.91), to which the *Kāśikā* adds Dattārma, Guptārma, Kukkuṭārma, Vāyasārma, Bṛihadarma, Kapiñjalārma, Mahārma and Navārma. The *Tāṇḍya Brāhmaṇa* mentions a lake (*hrada*) called Sthūlārma north of the Sarasvatī, where on its pasture-lands 100 cattle had grazed and increased to 1,000 (XXV.10.8). The word *arma* in the *Baudh. Śrauta Sūtra* (ix.1; ix.3) is explained by the commentator as a village in ruins (*vinaṣhṭagrāma*) and deserted (*śūnya*).