Nagananda 2.p71
Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World 2.p71
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2.p71
Vidúshaka.
Whatever your highness orders. (Walking about, he picks up something, and returns to him.) You asked for one colour; but I have brought you some pieces from which you may easily get the five colours. Let your highness draw.
2.p71.n1
The five colours.—The St Petersburg Dictionary, under "varna," gives a reference for these five colours to Kátyáyana's Śrauta-sútra, xxii. 9, 13, where they are described as—blue, yellow, red, brown, and variegated (?).