India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.15
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s6.15
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c9.s6.15
Whereas literary evidence supports the existence of a gold currency, so far not a single specimen of a gold punch-marked coin of any denomination has been found in any hoard. Patañjali is possibly hinting at gold currency when he refers to the purchase of two *droṇa* measures of corn with gold sufficient for it (*dvi-droṇena hiraṇyena dhānyaṁ krīṇāti*), or to the purchase of one thousand horses with the amount of gold sufficient for it (*sahasra-parimāṇaṁ sāhasram; sāhasreṇa hiraṇyena aśvān krīṇāti, Bhāshya*, II. 3. 18; I. 452).