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pali's description is confirmed by Pandit Vislinudatta, the author of the Namacandrika commentary on the Amarah ora, who explains this word as denoting a type of Tilaka drawn with saffron, black Aguru, and other fragrant substances on the breasts, cheek, and etc. Tilaka and Visesaka seem to decote the auspicious tiny round or vertical mark put on the forehead between the eyebrows. This also is supported by Pandit Visbno datta - About Paltraccheda Dhanapala has not given a definite idea, except that it was of many kinds like Dravida and others, and that it was one of the fine arts which could entertain refined persons. Bhagavatsimbul has noticed this term as the name of one of the sixty-four arts to be learnt for the perfect fulfilment of the Kama Pue usartha? But Vatsyayana, the author of the Kamasutra, lists, not 'Pattraccheda', but 'Pattracchedya' or Visesakacchedya', which, according to Yasodhara the author of Jayamangala commentary on it, is a sort of a Tilaka consisting of trimming leaves of troes like birch, etc, 10 different shapes and figures to be applied to the forehead. Srinivasacarya, the coinmentator of Sudraka's Mrcchakatika explains the term Pattracchedya as referring to a type of picture in which artistically cut tiny pieces of fine leaf-thin sheets of wood or metal were utilized for cohancing the effect of variety • This art seems to be very old one as it is mentioned in the various texts of the Jain Canon, such as the Samaviyaaga sutta and Ayaranga sulla 10 Sridhara, the commentator of Srimad
! C Nim on Amarakosa II, vi 122
पत्रलेखा ॥ (9) ॥ पत्राल्गुलि ॥ (२) ।। समे स्त्रियाम् ॥ द्वे स्तनकपोलादौ केसराविना रविसस्य तिलफविशेषस्य, TM (N) P 161 (31)
सत्कलितकालागुरुतिलकशोमम् । 4. TM (N), P 289 (44)
राजमल्यानामलिकलेखासु सिलकानकार्षीत् । अहमपि स्वहस्तरचितविशेषका आवाय पदमा
वलोकनव्याजेन मणिदर्पणम् । 5 Cf Nia. Can. ou Anarukora II, v, 123
समालपत्र .तिलको चित्रक विशेषको चत्वारि ललाटकृतस्य तिलकस्य ।। 6 TM (N), p. 363 (13ff.)
दाविगविषु पस्छेदमेदेष्वन्येषु च विषजनविनोदयोग्येषु वस्तविज्ञानेषु । 7 of Bhagavad-goniandela-hosa, Vol VI, P 5294, Col 2 8. cf Jayamangala on Km Su ! 1 16p 30
विशेषकस्तिलको यो ललाटे दीयते, तस्य भूर्जादिपत्रमस्यानेकप्रकारे छेदनमेव च्छेद्यम् ,
पत्रच्छेद्यमिति वक्तव्यम् । 9 of harmarkar - Notes on Micch V 5, p 428
पत्राणां छेदोऽस्मिन्निति पाछेद्य पत्राकाराणा लोहदादिफलकाना बहुविधाकारकर्तनेन
मिम्पाद्यमान चित्र पत्रच्छेद्यमित्युच्यते। 10. The Katas by A. Venkatrubbuab, Madras, 1911, P16