India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.24

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s6.24

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c8.s6.24

3. *Other Grains*. *Yava* (barley, V.2.3); *Yavānī* (a kind of inferior barley, IV.1.49); *Aṇu* (V.2.4) a small grain (*Panicum miliaceum*) which is the principal food of the poorer people in the Sindh-Sagar doāb and other parts of the Punjab; *Gavedhukā*⁴ (IV.3.136), *Coix barbata*, boiled with rice or barley in preparing gruel; and *Tila* (V.1.4; II.7).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit