[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.s8.1 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.1 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.1 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.1) WORDS FOR \*CLOTHING\*—Besides the usual \*vastra\* and \*vasana\* denoting clothing in older literature Pāṇini mentions three new post-Vedic words, \*viz.\* \*chīra\* (VI.2.127), \*chela\* (III.4.33) and \*chīvara\* (III.1.20). In the \*sūtra Chele knopeḥ\* (III.4.33), \*chela\* denotes a garment worn on the body. \*Chīvara\* is frequently used in Buddhist books for a monk's robe. It is conspicuous by absence in the \*Brāhmaṇa\* and \*Āraṇyaka\* literature. Its Buddhist association is strengthened by its illustration which occurs both in the \*Chāndra-vṛitti\* and the \*Kāśikā\*, \*saṁchīvarayate bhikshuḥ\*, the monk dons the \*chīvara\* or 'takes the holy robes.' We do not find the word applied to the garments of laymen, a householder or a Brahmachārin. - [Previous: c8.s7.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s7.30) - [Next: c8.s8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.2) - [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.6.2.127) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.1) · Pramāṇa