India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.29

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³ *Mālā* (VI.3.65), garland. One who adorned his person with garlands was called *mālabhārī* (VI.3.65; fem. *mālabhāriṇī*). Patañjali illustrates this *sūtra* by the form *utapalamāla-bhāriṇī* i.e. the girl adorned with lotus garlands (I.1.72; I.187). Pāṇini refers to *sragvī*, a garland-wearer, used as the special epithet of a *snātaka*, who beautified himself with flower garlands after completing the period of studentship during which time the use of flowers was forbidden.