India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s6.t1.7

c9.s6.t1.7

(3) QUARTER-KĀRSHĀPAṆA—Pāṇini refers to *pāda* in *sūtra* V. 1. 34. Patañjali calls it *pādika* paid as daily wages to a labourer (*karmakarāḥ kurvanti pādikam-ahar-lapsyāmaha iti*, *Bhāshya*, I.3.72; I.293). The terms *dvipadīkā* and *tripadikā* signifying two and three *pādas* respectively are obviously implied in *sūtra* V. 4. 1 (see *Bhāshya*, III. 362 for these names;