[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.s8.35 # India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s8.35 India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s8.35 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s8.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.35) The \*Brahmajāla Sutta\* contains a stock list of dress and toileting processes comprising twenty items. (G. P. Majumdar, Toilet, \*Ind. Culture\*, Vol. I, p. 651). This list agrees closely with the one laid down in Suśruta (\*ibid.\* p. 653). Of those items Pāṇini refers to mirror, collyrium, garlands, perfumes, shoes and staff. In the \*Yājakādi\* group (which occurs twice in the \*Ashṭādhyāyī\*, II.2.9 and VI.2.151), Pāṇini mentions \*snāpaka\* (barber), \*utsādaka\* (one who anoints), \*udvartaka\* (one who rubs the body with emollient unguents) and \*parishechaka\* (one who sprinkles); and again in the \*Mahishyādi-gaṇa\* (IV.4.48) \*anulepikā\* (a female for applying sandal paste after bath), \*pralepikā\* (a female to apply unguents before bath) and \*vilepikā\* (a female to apply scented oils, etc.). The \*Arthaśāstra\* also mentions these personal attendants in the service of the king. (Cf. also the king's toilet in the \*Kalpasūtra\* which mentions them, \*S.B.E.\*, Vol. XXII, p. 241 ff.). - [Previous: c8.s8.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.34) - [Next: c8.s9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s9.1) - [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.2.2.9) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.agrawala-1953.c8.s8.35) · Pramāṇa