India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s5.t1.14
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s5.t1.14
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c9.s5.t1.14
(6) *Kishku*. It is included in the *Gaṇa-pāṭha* of VI. 1. 157 (*Pāraskara-prabhṛitīni cha saṁjñāyam*), which on the authority of Patañjali (III. 96) may be taken as a genuine reading. According to the *Arthaśāstra*, *kishku* was = 32 *aṅgulas* (2 feet) in ordinary usage, but = 42 *aṅgulas* for sawyers and blacksmiths. It was a measure employed in connection with camping grounds, forts and palaces (*Arth.* II. 20). It is referred to in the Mahābhārata (Āraṇyakaparva, 126.29).
Cites (3)
- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
- Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit