India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s4.4

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s4.4

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c9.s4.4

The examples *pañcha-nauḥ*, *daśa-nauḥ* refer to a big deal in exchange for five or ten boatfuls of merchandise (*Kāśikā* on *Nāvo Dvigoḥ*, V. 4. 99). Patañjali refers to consignments of five hundred boats or five hundred rafts (*pañch-oḍupa-śatāni tīrṇāni, pañcha-phalaka-śatāni tīrṇāni*, *Bhāshya*, II. 356), which point to a flourishing riverine traffic in goods which rich merchants (*parama-vāṇija*, *uttama-vāṇija* on Pāṇini V.2.13) must have handled.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit