India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s2.23

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s2.23

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c9.s2.23

Pāṇini also mentions *ākarshika*, one skilled (*kuśala*) in testing gold on the touch-stone (*ākarsha*, V.2.64). The term *ākarshika* (IV.4.9) was also applied to a person going round with a touch-stone and testing gold (*ākarsha iti suvarṇa-parīkshārtho nikashopalaḥ*, *Kāśikā*).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit