India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.t1.35

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s13.t1.35

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c8.s13.t1.35

These must have been current expressions used during the progress of the game when a player scored a winning or a losing throw. In the *Vidhurapaṇḍita Jātaka* (545) a graphic description of the gambling scene between the Kuru king and the Yakkha Puṇṇaka is given and there an expression identical with that of Pāṇini is used:

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