India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.t1.16

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s13.t1.16

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c8.s13.t1.16

A feature of all such sports played by the gathering of fruits or plucking of flowers was that the plucking should be done by hand (*hastādāne cherasteye*, III.³.40). According to this rule the form *pushpa-prachāya* would not be regular unless the plucking was done by hand.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit