India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s5.t1.10

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s5.t1.10

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c9.s5.t1.10

(4) *Hastin.* A *hastī* measure is to be determined from the standard measurement of an elephant of the best class at forty years age, *viz.* 'seven *aratnis* in height, nine *aratnis* in *length*, ten *aratnis* in circumference' (*Arth.* II. 31).

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Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit