India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.41
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s6.t1.41
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c9.s6.t1.41
Sometimes the term *rūpa* was used for the coin itself, as in the *Mahāsupina Jātaka* (I.340). Kauṭilya mentions an officer called *Rūpadarśaka* (*Arth.* II. 9, p. 69; 245), Examiner of Coins. In his comment on a *vārttika* to Pāṇini’s *sūtra* I. 4. 52, Patañjali also refers to an officer called *Rūpatarka* whose duty was to scrutinise the current *kārshāpaṇa* coins (*paśyati Rūpatarkaḥ kārshāpaṇam*, I.337).
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- Jātaka — Pāli
- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
- Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit