India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s3.4

c7.s3.4

Starting from below, Śālvakāgiri is phonetically the name of Hālā Range lying north-south between Sind and Baluchistan. To the west of it is the Makran chain of hills, the home of the Hiṅgulā river and Hiṅgulāja goddess. Hiṅgulā seems to be the Prakrit form of Kiṁśulakā. It was also called by its synonymous name, the Pārada country, Pardene of classical writers, corresponding to *Pārdāyana* of Patañjali (IV.2.99). Goddess Hiṅgulā of this place is of vermilion colour, also called Dadhiparṇī, because of its association with the ancient Scythian tribes of Dahae and Parnians. It was worshipped also as Nānī, or Nanā of antiquity.