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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 240088, member: 2844&quot;]Pandan also has medicinal uses, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-fungal. A healing plant is often considered sacred, even if there is a lot of it and it is used in just about every dish in Southeast Asia and quite a few in India as well. Here is an Indonesian cake with pandan you probably recognize, Shangas, we call it spekkoek. Enjoy:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdessertation.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fmarissa-pics-066.jpg&amp;sp=d4c0f61e1664b3ad795e6b558b3ce281" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the box looks like a traditional Indian pandan box, made for, traditional Indian use, the way it would have been made long before British rule. Would it still be classified as colonial silver?</p><p>I thought that applied to items made for or influenced by non-Indians in India. That is certainly the case with items made in the former Dutch occupied parts of India. The local style was always local, only if there was some colonial involvement in the style or use of the item would it be called colonial.</p><p><br /></p><p>Devanagari is indeed used for Sanskrit, but also for later Indian languages like Hindi. There are only about 1500 native speakers of Sanskrit.</p><p>This box would only have a Sanskrit inscription if it was made for the small Sanskrit-speaking community or had a religious purpose. There is no evidence of either, so I think it is Hindi or another one of the many Indian languages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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