India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s2.24

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s2.24

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c9.s2.24

(11) *LIFTERS*—For scaffolding and lifting a large number of intricate knots and binding devices were being used. Pāṇini refers to them as *bandhas* (*Saṁjñāyām*, III.4.42, read with *Adhikaraṇe bandhaḥ*, III.4.41), on which the *Kāśikā* cites some old terms: (1) *krauñcha-bandha*, 'heron-knot, (2) *mayūrikā-bandha*, 'peafowl-knot', (3) *aṭṭālikā-bandha* 'tower-knot' (*bandha-viśeshāṇāṁ nāmadheyāni*). The *Arthaśāstra* adds *vṛiśchika-bandha*, 'scorpion-knot' (*Arth.* IV.8, p. 221).

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Linked texts (2)

Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit