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India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s3.8

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s3.8

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c7.s3.8

The last name Kukkuṭā-giri seems to represent the comparatively low peaks in the west of Afghanistan towards Herat which in Iranian geograhy were called *Uparisaena*, "The Falcon's Perch", and by the classical writers Paropamisus, with special reference to their low height.