[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.s8.30 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.30 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.30 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.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 - [Previous: c8.s8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.29) - [Next: c8.s8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.31) - [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.4.4.53) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.30) · Pramāṇa