The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c5.32

c5.32

Dress in the Vedic and epic periods, 334-6; evidence of the classical literature, 336-8; why busts of women in sculptures and paintings are uncovered in some places, 338-47; modes of wearing *sari*, *sakachchha* fashion in N. W. F. P. and Central India and *vikachchha* fashion in the Gangetic plain and Maharashtra, 347-49; stitched clothes known in pre-Muslim period, 350-2; influence of the Scythian dress, 353-5; widow's dress, 355-6; *lahaṅgā* and *odhṇī*, 356-7; recent changes, 357-8; ornaments, their number and variety, 358-60; numerous artistic fashions of coiffure, 360-1; ointments and lipsticks, 361-2; nose-ring unknown in Hindu period, 362-4; ornaments as a corrective to the law of inheritance, 364-5.