India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s4.14

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s4.14

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c8.s4.14

Women also paid attention to personal adornment and beauty (*bhūshaṇa* and *maṇḍana*, III.2.151). Mention is made of an ornament of the fore-head (*lalāṭikā*) and ear-rings (*karṇikā*, IV.3.65), and also to hair-dressing (*keśa-veśa*, IV.1.42). The *lalāṭikā* is seen as an ornament on the forehead of the earliest Indian women in the sculptures of Bharhut (Cunn. *Bharhut*, plate XXIII).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit