India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s2.3

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s2.3

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c9.s2.3

CLASSES OF ARTISANS—Pāṇini mentions the village artisans as *grāmaśilpins* (VI.2.62), *e.g.* the village carpenter (*grāma-takshā*, V.4.95), potter and barber. Patañjali says that in each village there were at least five artisans (*tatra chāvarataḥ pañchakārukī bhavati*, I.1.48; I.118), amongst whom Nāgeśa includes the potter, black-smith, carpenter (*vardhaki*), barber and washerman.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit