India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.11

c8.s13.11

Thus the minimum length of one day's horse-journey in the *Arthaśāstra* is 5 *yojanas* for a saddle horse of ordinary quality and 6 *yojanas* for a carriage horse. The *āśvīna* distance in the *Atharvaveda* was more than 5 *yojanas*, *i.e.* somewhere between 6 and 8 *yojanas*. According to Patañjali, the distance travelled by an average horse (*aśva*) was 4 *yojanas* and by a superior horse (*aśvatara*, V.3.55; II.413) 8 *yojanas* (*aśvo'yaṁ yaś-chatvāri yojanāni gachchhati*, *aśvataro'yaṁ yo'ashṭau yojanāni gachchhati*).