Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.125

c15.125

Pāṇini (c. 500 B.C.) in his Grammar testifies to the continued use of some of these Vedic terms for coins. He knows of the gold coins *Nishka*, *Śatamāna* and *Suvarṇa*. Things valued in terms of *Nishka* are called *Naishkika*, *Dvinaishkika*, and so forth [V. 1, 20; 30]. A man of 100 *Nishkas* was called a *Naishka-Śātika*, a man of thousand a *Naishka-Sāhasrika* [V. 2, 119].