India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s11.2

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s11.2

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c8.s11.2

As examples of household furniture Pāṇini mentions *śayyā*, bed (III.3.99); *khaṭvā*, cot (II.1.126); *paryaṅka* or *palyaṅka*, couch (VIII.2.22); *āsandī*,¹ settee or royal throne (VIII.2.12); *viṣṭara*, an ordinary seat (*āsana*, VIII.3.93); and *parpa* a wheeled-chair for disabled persons (IV.4.10). One using a *parpa* was called *parpika*, evidently same as *pīṭha-sarpī* of the *Vājasaneyi Saṁhitā* (XXX.24), Manu (VIII.394) and the *Jātakas*.

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Cites (3)

Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Yājñavalkyasmṛti — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit
Śuklayajurvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit