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India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s1.38

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s1.38

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c9.s1.38

1. *lūyamāna-yavam*, when barley was being harvested (as explained by Vardhamāna in the *Gaṇaratnamahodadhi*);
2. *lūna-yavam*, when the harvesting was completed;
3. *pūyamāna-yavam*, when barley was being winnowed;
4. *pūta-yavam*, when the winnowing was completed;
5. *khale-yavam*, when barley grain was heaped on the threshing floor;
6. *khale-busam*, when the straw was separated from the grain and heaped on the floor;
7. *Saṁbhriyamāṇa-yavam*, when barley was being collected;
8. *saṁbhṛita-yavam*, when it was garnered;
9. *saṁbhriyamāṇa-busaṁ*, when the straw was being collected;
10. *saṁbhṛita-busaṁ*, when the straw was gathered in.