The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c15.s1.29

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Shrimant Balasaheb Pantapratinidhi, the Rajasaheb of Aundh, has suggested that we can account for this insufficient dress of women at Elora and Ajanta on the assumption that the artists were Dravidians in culture¹. He points out that even today very few in Kochin and Malbar wear any upper garment. So the Dravidian artists have shown their women folk as wearing just the dress that was current in the Dravidian society. The Rajasaheb holds that the artists at Bharhut and Sanchi, on the other hand, were following the Aryan tradition, and so have shown their women as wearing an upper garment which covers the breasts and falls over the left shoulder².