Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s10.138
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s10.138
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v2.c4.s10.138
A gold currency was evidently beginning to be known in so far as definite weights of gold are mentioned: thus a weight, aṣṭā-prūd, occurs in the Saṃhitās,¹² and the golden śatamāna, ‘weight of a hundred (Kṛṣṇalas)’ is found in the same texts.¹³ In several passages,¹⁴ moreover, hiraṇya or hiraṇyāni may mean ‘pieces of gold.’