Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c6.32

Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahābhārata: Upāyana Parva c6.32

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c6.32

It is obvious that the Hindus who by religion were ordained to have Śikhā or a top-knot looked askance towards those who had all their hair shaved; ‘shaved like Yavanas (*Yavanamuṇḍa*), shaved like Kamboja (*Kambojamuṇḍa*),’ were contemptuous terms in vogue since the days of Pāṇini (*Gaṇapātha* on *Mayūravyanisakādi* II, 1, 72).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit