History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c12.s6.8

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² Watters, I, p. 340; Beal, I, p. 207. Yuan Chwang mentions four kinds of cloths, viz., Kiao-shê-ye (Kauseya) or silk; Ch‘u-mo (Kṣauma) or linen; Han (Kan)-po-lo (Kambala) or woollen texture; Ho-la-li (Ral ?) being a texture made from the wool of a wild animal (‘-atters, I, p. 148; Beal, I, p. 75). Bāṇa speaks of soft textures of linen, cotton, bark-silk, spider’s thread, muslin, and shot silk(Hc. C. T., p. 125).