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(xx) Kanagayaka—Kanagayaka was a cloth having its border woven with golden thread.'
(xxi ) Kanagapatta—Two definitions of this cloth are found in the text. According to one, it was a cloth interwoven with golden threads, while according to the other, it was a cloth made from the hair of a particular species of deer called Kanagapatta.s
(xxii) Kanagakhaciya—Kanagakhaciya was a cloth embroidered with golden threads.It must have been a cloth like brocade.
(xxiii) Kanagaphulliya—Kaņagaphulliya is explained as a cloth on which the designs were made with gold by applying. a type of wax or such other adhesive substance (kaddama).' This process has been rendered by Jaina as the art of 'tinsel
reading of the NC. It reads : qaratie granu à quo, quot ga सुत्त रज्जति तेण जं तं तं कणगम् । On the basis of this he has stated that "two definitions of the karaga cloth are to be found in the NC. According to one, "it was a cloth made from the bark of the banyan tree" and secondly as "clothes dyed in golden solution' (Motichandra, op. cit., p. 149 ). But in the present edition of the NC. we have a different reading, viz. ESTETITE TAICII, yquot gå ati Taid, ito of gri i ri. Evidently, the previous one is a definition of the pāvāraga cloth and the latter, i. e. 'cloth made from yarn dyed in golden solution'', is the only definition of kallaga cloth in the NC. In the commcntary on the Brhatkalpa Bhasya, however, it is explained as cloth made from the golden coloured yarns of certain insects ( Brh. V:. 4,.
p. 1018 ). 1. at FF Fitur foar FORTY-NC. 2, p. 400. 2. STEH TET fiat a FUTTE Lācarānga, II. 5. 1. 3-8. 3. 34891-FTTTET PAI–NC. 2, p. 400. 4. FUTTETO El JFF GEET i forrela Ibid; Ācārānga, II. 5.1.3-8. 5. TOT GEA yene faunis ñ firmiyafeti i FET TEHy geelsuha
NO. 2, p. 400.
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