India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t2.7

c8.s6.t2.7

The same principle held good in the case of utensils which were named from the quantity that they could contain (*saṁ-bhavati*, V.¹.52) as *prāsthika*, *kauḍavika*, *khārīka*, or the quantity that could be cooked in them (*Parimāṇe pachaḥ*, III.2.33). This naming of cooking vessels according to their capacity was of practical use at the time of borrowing utensils for big feasts.