India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.t1.24
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s13.t1.24
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c8.s13.t1.24
Pāṇini calls a dicer *ākshika* (*Tena dīvyati*, IV.4.2.). Patañjali says that *kitava* and *dhūrta* formed part of the *Śauṇḍādi* group (II.1.40) and he refers to a practised gambler as *aksha-kitava* and *aksha-dhūrta* (*Bhāshya*, I.390). *Kitava*, 'a gambler,' was an old Vedic word (*Vedic Index*, I.156-7), used also in the Buddhist literature (cf. *asippa dhuttaka* and *sikkhita kitava*, *Jāt.* VI.228; also *Dhammapada*, verse 252) and the *Mahābhārata* (Sabhāparva, 58.9).¹
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- Jātakatthavaṇṇanā — Pāli
- Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit