India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s1.14

c9.s1.14

As examples of fields named after the crops grown (*Dhānyānāṁ bhavane kshetre khañ*, V.2.1), we have: *vraiheya* for *vrīhi*, *śāleya* for *śāli* (V.2.2). Other similar names were *yavya* for barley, *yavakya* for a kind of rice, *shashṭikya* for the *shashṭikā* rice so called from its ripening in two months, *tilya* or *tailīna* for sesamum, *māshya* or *māshīṇa* for beans, *umya* or *aumīna* for linseed, *bhaṅgya* or *bhāṅgīna* for hemp, and *aṇavya* or *āṇavīna* field for the *aṇu* crop (*Panicum Miliaceum*, now called *chīnā*, V.2.3-4).