India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.14

c8.s13.14

Pāṇini refers to a boat-ferry as *nāvya* (IV.4.9), same as *nāva-tittha* (*Jāt*., III.330). A ferry on the Indus was located near Pāṇini’s own home in Śalātura, as stated in a later inscription (*Śala-no-krama*).¹ The Indus near this place is crossed by a boat-bridge for eight months of the year, and for the remaining four months the passage is effected by a ferry (*Imp. Gazetteer*, Vol. 1.382).