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LIFE OF MAHAVÍRA.
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ducive to health and comfort, with tepid water, scented with flowers and sweet perfumes, pure water from a holy place. At the end of this operation, attended with so much pleasure, he dried himself with a towel made of soft, valuable, and finely coloured cloth. After this, he put on his robes, made of the most expensive materials, and fringed with jewels, entirely new, and adorned with wreaths of flowers, sprinkled with saffron, and scented with sandal-wood. He then threw around his neck, so as to fall down on his breast, a necklace, in which pearls and jewels and gold medals were intermingled with one another, consisting of eighteen, nine, or three strings, as the case might be. He next fitted his jewelled collar close to his neck*, put the rings on his fingers, and the armlets and bracelets on his muscular arms, while the long circular ear-rings hung down and adorned his cheeks, and a tiara his head. Thus arrayed, with the necklace adorning his breast, jewelled rings of the best gold his fingers, with an elegant scarf falling down on the left side, and with what is called the hero's ornament on his arm, made of the finest gold, and set with the most ex
* These are two completely different pieces of dress; the former hangs loose like a grarland, the latter fits close like a collar.
