India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s1.32

c9.s1.32

(iv) *Threshing* (*nishpāva*, III.3.28). The reaped crop was stacked on a threshing floor (*khala*). A plot was set apart for purposes of threshing, and was called *khalya*, ‘good as a threshing floor’ (V.¹.7). A group of adjoining threshing floors was called *khalyā*, (IV.2.50) or *khalinī* (IV.2.51).