India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s3.2

c7.s3.2

Pāṇini mentions some particular hills: (1) Tri-kakut (V.4.147) so-called from its three peaks, a name first used in the *Atharvaveda* as the source of a salve (*añjana*), which may be identified with the Sulaiman mountain, famous as the source of antimony all over the Punjab and Sind (probably same as Sauvīrāñjana; cf. *Vedic Index*, I.329); (2) Vidūra (IV.3.84) as the source of the precious stone called *vaidūrya*, cat's eye, which according to Patañjali was quarried at Vālavāya and treated by the lapidaries in Vidūra, probably Bidar (cf. Pargiter, *Mārk.*, p. 365, for Vaidūrya as Satpura); (3) Kiṁśulakā-giri (VI.3.117), to which the *Gaṇapāṭha* adds five more names, viz., Śālvakāgiri, Añjanāgiri Bhañjanāgiri Lohitāgiri, Kukkuṭāgiri.