India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s2.27

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s2.27

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c9.s2.27

*WAGES*—Both agricultural labour and skilled artisans worked to earn their livelihood (*jīvikārtha*, VI.2.73) through either wages, or as food received. The system of receiving a fixed payment in return or stipulated services rendered was called *parikrayaṇa* (I.4.44, *niyatakālaṁ vetanādinā svīkaraṇam*, *Kāśikā*), the employer *parikretā* and the man employed *parikrīta*.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit