India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.56

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s6.t1.56

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c9.s6.t1.56

*USE OF A PLEDGE*—Pāṇini knows of this form of interest in *sūtra* IV.4.89, which refers to *dhenushyā*, as a cow whose milk was pledged to the creditor for satisfaction of the loan advanced by him (*yā dhenur-uttamarṇāya ṛiṇapradānād doha nārthaṁ dīyate sā dhenushyā*, *Kāśikā*).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit