Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c12.s2.10

c12.s2.10

Coming to costlier textiles, we find references to silk cloth (koseya and koseyya-pāvāra) in the Pāli canonical works and the Jātakas². Kauṭilya (ii. 11) also mentions kauśeya along with chīna-paṭṭa chīna-bhūmija (Chinese fabric of Chinese manufacture). This last passage points to the fact that silks of Chinese origin competed at this time with the home-made product.