India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.28

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² *Añjana*, not referred to directly, but mention is made of the Trikakut mountain (V.4.147) from which a kind of valuable salve called *Traikakuda añjana* was obtained (Cf. *Atharva*, IV.9.9; *Vedic Index*, I.329). It may be identified with the Sulaiman mountains which is the home of a salve sold all over Sind and Panjab. The *Mahābhārata* refers to fair-complexioned Panjabi women painting their eyes with the *añjana* from the Trikakut mountain (Karṇaparva, 44.18). Another kind of salve, *Yāmuna añjana* was obtained in the region of the Yamunā, (Dehradun Dt.) which was known to Pāṇini as *Kālakūṭa* ('the Black Hill', IV.1.173).