India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s5.8
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s5.8
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(2) *Śāṇa*—It is referred to in two *sūtras* (V. 1. 35; VII. 3. 17) as the name of a coin. According to the *Mahābhārata* *śāṇa* was one-eighth of a *śatamāna* or 100 rattis (Vanaparva, 134. 14), and thus weighed 12½ *rattis*. Charaka refers to *śāṇa* as one-fourth of a *suvarṇa*, *i.e.* four *māshakas* or 20 *rattis* (Kalpasthāna, XII. 89), and its half-weight as *śāṇārdha* for weighing small doses of medicine (Chikitsāsthāna, XXVI, 248).