India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s6.t2.8

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s6.t2.8

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c8.s6.t2.8

CUSTOM OF FEEDING DOMESTIC SERVANTS. Pāṇini refers to the custom of giving food to a domestic servant as part of his wages fixed by custom (*niyukta*, IV.4.66). This practice was so widely prevalent that special terms were used to indicate it, *e.g.* a servant who got cooked rice as his food every day was called *odanika* or *bhāktika* (*odanikī* for a female servant). According to Pāṇini the customary payments of food to domestic servants were of an obligatory nature:

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit