India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.2

c8.s8.2

The word *āchchhādana* denoted both a garment as *prāvāra* (III.3.54) and *bṛihatikā* (V.4.6), and also cloth (VI. 2.170). It is more frequently used in the *Ashṭādhyāyī* than any other word for cloth. Its later affinities are apparent from the fact that the word is not found in the *Brāhmaṇas*, but occurs several times in the Dharmasūtras (Vasisṭha, XVII.62; XVIII.33, *grāsāchchhādana*) and the *Arthaśāstra* in the sense of clothing (*Arth.* Text, I.11, p. 18).