India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s3.17

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s3.17

Liquorice (*madhuka*) and pepper (*maricha*) were imported by the land route called *sthalapatha* (Kātyāyana), evidently from the south.