India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.1

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s6.t1.1

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c9.s6.t1.1

In order to understand more clearly the lower denominations of the *kārshāpaṇa* which Pāṇini has mentioned, a comparative table of *kārshāpaṇa* and its sub-multiples is given below. Our best source is a passage in the *Arthaśāstra*¹ (*Arth.* II.12, p. 84), and another in the *Gaṅgamāla Jātaka*², which together with the evidence from the grammatical literature furnish the following names:

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Cites (2)

Jātaka — Pāli
Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit