Cultural Study of Nisitha Curni

SR No.: 001743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Madhu Sen
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 432
Language: English, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & Literature
File Size: 23 MB

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MATERIAL CULTURE
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beautiful flowers and garlands at a very high price during the festival days. The flowers of different varieties ( anegajati ) and different colours ( anegavanna ) were used for making garlands.2 The five-coloured garlands ( pańcavanna-maliya) made from the fragrant flowers like pauma ( lotus ), uppala ( blue lotus )' or mayana' etc. were largely appreciated. The fivecoloured garlands of Mathurā were made with grasses like viranao and were very famous. The garlands as well as the flowers were worn on the head. Such decorative flowers were called keśa-puspa. The fower-chaplets ( sekhara ) were also worn. In the Kadambari king Sūdraka is mentioned to have adorned his head with a flower chaplet of the fragrant Malatt flowers after finishing his toilet.? Yuan Chwang obviously refers to the same custom when he says that “garlands were worn on the head">8, and that "garlands and tiaras with precious stones were the head-adornments of the king."
The garlands of different varieties were used for different purposes. The garlands made from the flowers or seeds of guñia (abrus precotorius), rudraksa (eleocarpus ganitrus), putranjiva, the cotton plantio, leaves like that of tagara (taberna emontana)11, bhin Ja (abelmoschus esculantus) and from the peacockfeathers (moramgamayi ) 2 are mentioned in the text. The garlands of different types (a negavidha) were suspended on the gateways of the houses as bentings (vamdana-maliya ) at the
1. NC. 4, p. 306. 2. NC. 4, p. 40. 3. Get YourTETICFAST TECTA TI-NC. 3, p. 280. 4. FU #TO-s critila, 79001_NC. 2, p. 396. 5. attomaat 17quotatie9137 ET HETTT-Ibid. 6. golf 37 IINC. 2, p. 467. 7. Agrawala, op. cit., p. 31. 8. Watters, op. cit. 1, p. 148; Beal, op. cit. 1, p. 75. 9. Watters, op. cit. I, p. 151; Beal, op. cit. 1, p. 75. 10. NC. 2, p. 396. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid.