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MATERIAL CULTURE
former definition is accepted, it is not clear as to what difference there was between the khomma and the pottaga which has also been explained as cotton cloth. The latter definition of khomma appears to be more reliable, and the other Jaina texts also mention it as linen cloth. According to the Amarakośa, kṣauma was a synonym of duküla. Yuan Chwang also mentions Calico-Chiu (or Chu)-ma (kṣauma) as a kind of linen.3
(vii) Dugulla-Dugulla was a cloth manufactured from the bark of the dugulla tree.+ The bark of the dugulla tree was pounded in a mortar by adding water and the cloth was made out of its fibres." Bana also frequently refers to dukula-cloth® which has been explained by scholars as bark-silk." The commentator of the Acaranga, however, explains dugulla as cloth made from cotton grown in the Gauda country.
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(viii) Tiriḍapatta (see-common-clothes).
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(ix) Mayala-Mayala or malaya cloth was manufactured in the Malaya country from the saliva of the insects which fell the leaves of the malaya-plants. Apparently, it was a cloth manufactured from the malaya fibres in the country of Malaya. 10
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(x) Paṭṭunna-Paṭṭunna is also mentioned as a cloth made from the bark-fibres.11
1. Acaranga, II. 5. 1. 1.
2. Amarakosa, II. 6. 112.
3. Watters, op. cit., 1, p. 148.
4. दुगुल्लो रुक्खो तस्स वागो घेत्तु उदूखले कुट्टिज्जति – NC. 2, p. 399.
5. पाणिएण ताव जाव झूसीभूतो ताहे कज्जति एतेसु दुगुल्लो — Ibid.
6. Hartacarita, p. 125, text p. 143.
7. Saletore, R.N., Life in the Gupta Age, p. 404.
8. Acaränga, II. 5. 1. 3.
9. किरीडयलाला मयलविसए मयलाणि पत्ताणि कोविज्जति - NC. 2, p. 399.
10. मलयोनाम देश: तत्सम्भवं मलयजम् Bh. 1. 4, p. 1018.
11. तेसु वालए पत्तुणा - NC. 2, p. 399.
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