India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s1.t1.4

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s1.t1.4

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c9.s1.t1.4

(i) *Śāli* (V.².2). It was different from *Vrīhi* as stated by Kauṭilya also. *Vrīhi* corresponds to Hindi *dhān*, and *śāli* to *jaḍahan*. *Śāli* crop was harvested in the cold season, and *vrīhi* in the rainy season. *Vrīhi* is a much older word used in the *Vājasaneyī Saṁhitā* (XVIII.12) and the *Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upanishad* (VI.3.13) as the first of the cultivated grains (*grāmya-dhānyas*). Patañjali refers to red rice (*lohita-śāli*, I.403) and irrigation channels for watering the *śāli* crop.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit