[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c8.s8.10 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.10 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.10 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.10) On \*sūtra\*, V.1.21 Patañjali cites an illustration from which we learn that the price of one hundred \*śāṭakas\* or \*dhotis\* was one hundred (\*Śatena krītaṁ śatyaṁ śāṭaka-śatam\*, II.346). It will be shown in the Section on coins that when the number occurs without specifying the name of the coin, a silver \*kārshāpaṇa\* was usually meant. We may therefore say that in the time of Patañjali (2nd century B.C.) the selling price of an average cotton \*sārī\* was one silver \*kārshāpaṇa\*. - [Previous: c8.s8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.9) - [Next: c8.s8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.11) - [Up: c8.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.5.1.21) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.10) · Pramāṇa