Smell in ancient Sanskrit mythology short-sentence

This is a part of 'project 110, going back and re-filling', writing is happening 8ish months after the date.

Excerpt from the book Sandalwood and Carrion:

Perfumery is an especially interesting aspect of South Asian history to study because perfumery is not just a matter of mixing aromatics in a vessel, but it is effectively a network, where texts meet practice, trade, geography, politics and religion in a literal and material manner. As an artifact, a jar of medieval South Asian perfume was both the focus and product of several discourses, such as theories of perfumery, pharmacology, scriptural injunctions, literary associations, ideas of wealth and statecraft as well as the sort of olfactory dialogues with other perfumes that the scholar Alain Corbin describes regarding France. Perfume and incense were materially constituted from things with remarkable olfactory properties, such as camphor and musk. These were usually only available from specific places, and they had to be transported to the Indian subcontinent from great distances, often with great difficulty. Perfumes -- expensive, rare and aesthetically striking -- were a vital part of religious and royal practices both for the body and for the environment, both in private and in public. Given the nature of my sources -- Sanskrit texts 00 I will focus above all on the connections of perfumes to various discourses. I will also discuss the relations of perfumes to institutions, such as temples and royal courts. However, because of the difficulties of historically locating many of my sources with any precision, these later observations will be a little more general. And, given my training and sources, I will focus least of all on the actual trade and origins of aromatic materials, though, it is important to remember that odorous stuff found in widely scattered parts of Asia and the Arabian peninsula is always a part of the picture, and the nature and origin of real materials powerfully shaped other aspects -- discursive, economic and institutional -- of the world of smell in medieval South Asia.