India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.53

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s6.t1.53

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c9.s6.t1.53

The other important crop was *vāsantika* harvested in the spring season. This crop is now called *rabī*, with barley, wheat, and oil-seeds as its main produce. On account of its association with barley and its straw, the season itself was nicknamed *yava-busa*, and Pāṇini refers to loans due for repayment at this time of the year as *yava-busaka* (IV.3.48).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit