India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t1.24
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s6.t1.24
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c8.s6.t1.24
*(ii)* *Guḍa* (IV.4.103), molasses, a universal product of sugarcane juice. Pāṇini’s phrase ‘excellent for making *guḍa*’ (*guḍe sādhu*) refers to some special variety of sugarcane yielding better quality of *guḍa*. Even now this consideration prevails with experienced farmers in selecting sugarcane seed for the next crop. Pāṇini refers to vast cane plantations or forests of sugarcane as *ikshu-vaṇa* (VIII.4.5).