India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.17

c8.s13.17

Supposing a full consignment of riverine trade was comprised of a hundred boats, it would happen that at important landing places, the cargo of some of these boats was unloaded and disposed of by exchange with other local goods, which latter were reladen on the boats. Such transactions are referred to by the *Kāśikā* as *pañchanau*, *daśa-nau* (*pañchabhiḥ*