India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s5.11
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s5.11
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(5) *Āḍhaka* (V. 1. 53). It was a weight equal to 16 *kuḍavas* or 256 *karshas*. Charaka makes *pātra* a synonym of *āḍhaka* (Kalpasthāna, XII.94). Pāṇini mentions both these in *sūtra* V. 1. 53, with reference to cooks able to handle so much quantity. Special mention is made of fields requiring one *pātra* of seed for sowing (V. 1. 46, *pātrikaṁ kshetram*, *pātrikī kshetrabhaktiḥ*).