[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.s8.2 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.2 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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). - [Previous: c8.s8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.1) - [Next: c8.s8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.3) - [Up: c8.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8) ## Linked texts (3) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.1.11) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi.3.3.54) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.17.62) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.2) · Pramāṇa