India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s5.t1.5

c9.s5.t1.5

Patañjali also mentions the *śama* measure before *dishṭi* and *vitasti* (*Bhāshya*, V. 2. 37; II. 378), which according to the *Arthaśāstra* was equal to 14 *aṅgulas*. Probably the word *śambā* in Pāṇini (V. 4. 58) was connected with the *śama* measure, and indicated that kind of intensive ploughing in which the furrow was deepened to a *śama* or 14 *aṅgulas* of depth (*śambā karoti*).