India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s10.23

c8.s10.23

The site of the ranches was subject to shifting owing to exigencies of fodder. According to Pāṇini: 'A place which had formerly been occupied by a *goshṭha* was called *gaushṭhīna*' (*Goshṭhāt khañ bhūtapūrve*, V.2.18). The entire village land was marked out, as today, for habitation, grazing, dumping of manure, and agriculture, the last three shifting after every twelve years. The plot for grazing was *goshṭha* when in use, and *gaushṭhīna* after it was abandoned.