Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s5.24

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CLASSES OF ORNAMENTS—(a) Head-bands made of thin flat strips of gold worn round the forehead both for beauty and for keeping the hair in position. They are now known as Pāt (Skt. Patra) and worn by Jat women in Rohtak area even today. These ribbon-like strips or fillets vary in length up to 16" and a little less than half an inch in width. Generally two holes are bored at the two ends, but there are specimens showing a number of holes bored along one edge to attach pendant strings of small pearls on the forehead.