[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953) › c8.s8.17 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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). - [Previous: c8.s8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.16) - [Next: c8.s8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.18) - [Up: c8.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.3.2.56) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.17) · Pramāṇa