India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.t1.39
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s13.t1.39
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c8.s13.t1.39
According to the testimony of the Vedic literature, *Jātakas*, *Mahābhārata* (Sabhāparva) and Kauṭilya dicing was a game played in a *sabhā*. The *Arthaśāstra* prescribes 5 p.c. as Government fee to be realised on the amount of wager (*Arth.* III.20 p. 198). This would correspond to *pañchakaḥ* (*pañchāsmin āyaḥ*), cited in the *Kāśikā* to illustrate *sūtra*, V.¹.47.
Cites (3)
- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
- Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit