The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c15.s1.45

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The present Maharashtrian fashion of wearing the *sari* is seen to be obtaining in the Punjab and North Western Frontier Province during the early centuries of the Christian era. A statute of goddess Hārīti in the Peshawer museum, executed by a Gandhāra artist, shows the *sari* worn in the *sakachchha* fashion ; its upper end is passed over the left shoulder and let hanging down from the right one as is done at present by the Maharashtrian ladies¹. The same is the case with the goddess appearing on a coin of king Azilises ruling over the Punjab in the 1st century B. C.,² and with numerous female statuettes from the same province, now exhibited in the Indian Museum, Calcutta³. Among these the sculpture of a Nāgiṇī represented in the human form is very remarkable in this respect (See Pl. V, A)..