[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c9.s2.2 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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). - [Previous: c9.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c9.s2.1) - [Next: c9.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c9.s2.3) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c9.s2) ## Cites (2) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.2.36) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.4.1.152) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c9.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c9.s2.2) · Pramāṇa