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(xiv) Amila—Amila is explained as a cloth manufactured from hair (roma)i or as a cloth spotlessly clean (nimmala), properly starched and calendered on a rubbing implement (ghattini-ghatita .2 Elsewhere in the NG. amlāta is mentioned as fine cloth which did not absorbe dirt very easily. This must have been a polished cloth having a fine finish.
(xv) Gajjala--Gajjala was a variety of cloth which made rustling noise like a thunderbolt.* It must have been a heavily starched cloth.
(xvi) Phadiya—Phādiya was a cloth fine and transparent like crystal.s
(xvii) Kambala- The word kambala denoted all types of expensive woollen clothes, i. e. the blankets as well as the woollen upper garments. A story in the NC. depicts how a Jaina monk was troubled by thieves for a fine kambala-cloth (kambala-rayana) that was given by a king. Yuan Chwang also refers to 'Han' or ( Kan ) po-lo (kambala ) as a texture of fine wool.?
(xviii) Pavaraga--Pavāragas were the mantles or the housings of the elephants (kharadaga—painted cloth to cover the elephant's back). 8
(xix) Kanaga--Kanaga cloth was made from yarns ( sutta ) dyed in a solution (druti) of gold.
rate to translate desarāga as clothes dyed in the regional process of dyeing. In the Ācārāiga ( II. 5. 1. 31 ) al:o they are mentioned only
as coloured clothes. 1. THE FIL BÀST-NC. 2, p. 399; Ācārāiga, II. 5. 1. 3-8. 2. 31691–fOFFICIT 3 for afguit afar à TYTTATOTIE Fiefd-NC. 2, p. 400. 3. AT 7 Feparat sita ara 37 Taifa Tan -Ibid., p. 109. 4. T ATAMI FE la THORNC. 2, p. 400; Acārānga, II. 5. 1. 3-8. 5. ETTETTHT FIEITT BEST EU:-Ibid. 6. Garchi tar-NC. 2, p. 400. 7. Watters, op. cit., 1, p. 148. 8. ETETT TERTINC. 2, p. 400 9. Taru ga Tri Tra, auga a 911—Ibid.
Motichandra's explanation of kanaga cloth is based on a different
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