India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s3.3

c9.s3.3

*TRADERS*—Traders are called *vaṇik* (III.3.52) and *vāṇija*, (VI.2.13). These terms seem to have been applied to traders without reference to caste, *e.g.*, *Madra-vāṇija*, one who traded with the Madra country (VI.2.13).