[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.s8.11 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.11 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.11 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.11) In the \*Sthūlādi-gaṇa\* (V.4.3) there is a reference to the \*gomūtrikā\* cloth, which appears to have been so called from the \*gomūtrikā\* design woven into its texture at one end. The \*gomūtrikā\* pattern was known in the fourth century B.C. as mentioned in the \*Arthaśāstra\* in connection with the formation of battle-arrays (\*Arth.\* Text, X.6). We may note in this connection that the \*paṭali\* or front folds of the \*dhoti\* on the Yaksha statues aforesaid are arranged zig-zag in the form of the \*gomūtrikā\* motif. - [Previous: c8.s8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.10) - [Next: c8.s8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.12) - [Up: c8.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8) ## Cites (2) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.10.6) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.5.4.3) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.11) · Pramāṇa