India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s3.6

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s3.6

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c9.s3.6

*BUSINESS*—A place of business was called *āpaṇa* (III. 3. 119, *etya tasminn-āpaṇanta ityāpaṇaḥ*, *Kāśikā*) and articles of trade *paṇya* and *paṇitavya* (III. 1. 101). These when properly displayed in shops were called *krayya*, 'to be sold' (*Krayyas-tadarthe*, VI. 1. 82). *Paṇya* is a general term for merchandise, while *krayya* denotes wares marked out for sale.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit