India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.16

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s13.16

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c8.s13.16

The worth of merchants was assessed in terms of the number of shiploads of merchandise, *e.g.*, *dvināva-dhana*, a merchant having two cargo boats (*Nāvo·dvigoḥ*, V.4.99; *Kāśikā*). One who was sailing with five ship-loads was called *pañchanāva-priya*. A shipment arriving with two cargo boats was designated as *dvināva-rūpya*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit