India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.30

c8.s8.30

⁴ *Gandha* (*perfumes*). Pāṇini mentions several kinds of perfumes, as (1) *kisara* (IV.4.53), (2) *śalālu* (IV.4.54) in the *sūtras*, and others like *narada*, *tagar*, *guggulu* (bdellium) and *uśīra* (*Andropogon Muricatus*), in the *Kisarādi-gaṇa*. From the way he mentions these perfumes it appears that there were special shopkeepers who traded in these articles (*Tadasya paṇyam*) and who were named after them, *e.g.* a woman selling *śalālu* (an unidentified fragrant substance) was called *śālālukī* and *śalālukī*. Spikenard (*nalada*) was an old