[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.s8.28 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.28 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.28 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.28) 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). - [Previous: c8.s8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.27) - [Next: c8.s8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.29) - [Up: c8.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8) ## Cites (3) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi.5.4.147) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.4.9.9) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.28) · Pramāṇa