India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.20

c9.s6.t1.20

Again in *sūtra* V. 1. 24 (*Viṁśati-triṁśadbhyāṁ ḍvunn-asaṁjñāyām*) Pāṇini mentions *viṁśatika* and *triṁśatka* as counter-examples which in this context were names (*saṁjñā*) of coins. Thus Pāṇini knows of these two special coins in a very intimate manner. The *viṁśatika* as its name implies was a coin of twenty, and the *triṁśatka* of thirty parts, *i.e.* *māshas*.