India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s2.2

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s2.2

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c9.s2.2

Pāṇini refers to a worker in handicrafts as *kāri* (IV.1.152), which the *Kāśikā* explains as *kāru*, such as weavers, (*kāri-śabdaḥ kārūṇāṁ tantuvāyādīnāṁ vāchakaḥ*). *Kāri* is absent in the *Arthaśāstra*, but *kāru* is mentioned along with the *śilpins* (*kāru-śilpinaḥ*, *Arth.* II.36, p. 144). Kātyāyana uses the word *kāri* to denote an artisan (*vārttika* on IV.1.159).

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Linked texts (2)

Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit