India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s2.26

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s2.26

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c9.s2.26

Skilled workmen were called *śilpins* and their wages *vetana* (*śilpino nāma syābhūtyartham eve pravartante, vetanaṁ cha lapsyāmahe*, *Bhāshya*, III.1.26.14.; II.36). Pāṇini mentions a wage-earner as *vaitanika*, 'earning livelihood by means of wages (*Vetanādibhyo jīvati*, IV.4.12). In the *Arthaśāstra*, *vetana* includes both wages paid to artisans (*Arth*. II.23, p. 114) and salaries paid to government servants (*ibid*, V.3, p. 248).

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit