India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.17
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s6.17
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(iii) *Hāyana* (III.1.48) a kind of *vrīhi* (the rainy crop which is not transplanted); included by Charaka amongst the nine varieties of well-known rice.¹ 'In the *Kāṭhaka Saṁhitā* and the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* the term appears as a designation of a species of red rice' (*Vedic Index*, Vol. II.502).