[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.s8.14 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.14 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.14 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.14) \*BṚIHATIKĀ\*—It is referred to in \*sūtra Bṛihatyā āchchhādane\*, V.4.6. The upper garment which was thrown on shoulders covering either one or both of them and falling down to the waist or knees seems to have been the \*bṛihatikā\* dress. The \*Amarakosha\* understands it as a kind of \*prāvāra\*, a big all-covering mantle. As remarked by the Greeks about the dress of the Indians: "They have a tunic of tree-linen down to the middle of their shins" (\*C.H.I.\*, p. 412). This long tunic may have been the \*bṛihatikā\* conforming to a real etymology of that word. Patañjali mentions \*bṛihatikā\* as a current dress (1.2.69). It seems to have been a fine wrapper 24' by 12' in size, mentioned as \*bāhitikā\* in the \*Majjhima Nikāya\* (\*Sutta\* 88). - [Previous: c8.s8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.13) - [Next: c8.s8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.15) - [Up: c8.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8) ## Cites (2) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.5.4.6) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit - [Majjhimanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.14) · Pramāṇa