India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.17

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.17

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c8.s8.17

ORNAMENTS AND TOILET—Pāṇini refers to cultured citizens (*pravīṇa nāgarakas*, IV.2.128), and also to the arts of personal decoration (*subhagaṅkaraṇa*, III.2.56). Decoration was applied to the different parts of the body (*Svāṅgebhyaḥ prasite*, V.2.66), such as *keśa*, which were dressed in an artistic manner by the dandy called *keśaka*. There are references to ornaments (*alaṁkāra*, IV.3.64), elegant drapery (*āchchhādana*, V.4.6), stylistic coiffure (*keśaveṣha*, IV.¹.42) and to special words indicative of the beauty of the female form, e.g. *vāmoru*, *saṁhitoru*, *śaphoru* (IV.1.70).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit