India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s14.9

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s14.9

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c8.s14.9

The *dārdurika* seems to have been a player on a drum made of an earthen jar (IV.4.34). In the *Jātakas* we find *kumbha-thūṇika* mentioned in a list of musical players which the commentary explains as *ghāṭadaddara-vādaka* (*Jāt.* VI.276). The *Kāśikā* explains *dārdurika* as a potter, signifying one who was the maker of those particular pots used as *vādya-bhāṇḍa*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Jātaka — Pāli