The Classical Accounts of India c13.40

c13.40

Purple cloth, fine and ordinary: garments made up in the Arabian fashion, some plain and common, and others wrought in needlework and inwoven with gold, saffron; the aromatic rush Kyperos, muslins; cloaks, quilts in small quantity, some plain, others adapted to the fashion of the country; sashes of various shades of colour, perfumes a moderate quantity; specie as much as is required,¹⁷ wine and corn, but not much.