India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s7.24

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s7.24

(11) *Sparśa* (III.3.16). According to Kātyāyana's *vārttika* the word denoted an ailment, probably contracted by touch or infection.