India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.16

c8.s8.16

We may also note the names of two other kinds of blankets known to Kātyāyana and Patañjali. In a *vārttika* on *sūtra* VII.3.45, (*Varṇakā tāntave*) Kātyāyana mentions *varṇakā* as a woven fabric, which Kauṭilya describes under the masculine form *varṇaka* as a kind of woollen blanket (*Arth.* II.11). Patañjali refers independently to *kutapa*, a Nepalese blanket or *thulma* (II.¹.69; I.406).