India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s9.8

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s9.8

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c8.s9.8

MATERIALS—Pāṇini refers to bricks among building materials in the phrase *ishṭaka-chita*, denoting something constructed with bricks (VI.3.65). The Pāli literature also mentions *iṭṭhakā-vaḍḍhaki* or brick-layers. (Dr. Coomaraswamy, City and City-Gates, p. 211; *Jāt.* VI. p. 333).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Jātaka — Pāli