India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s5.1

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s5.1

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c9.s5.1

TERMS—The word *parimāṇa* in the *Ashṭādhyāyī* denotes cubic and gravitational measures, and *pramāṇa* a lineal measure. According to Patañjali¹ *unmāna* is a measure of weight, *parimāṇa* of volume or capacity (*sarvatomānam*), and *pramāṇa* a lineal measure (*āyāma*). *Pautava* used in the *Arthaśāstra* (Cf. *Pautavādhyaksha*, Superintendent of Weights and Measures) is unknown to Pāṇini.

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit