Public Administration in Ancient India c21.26

c21.26

⁴ Of the dress of Indians in olden times Curtius says: “They cover their persons down to the feet with fine muslin, are shod with sandals, and coil round their heads cloths of linen. They hang precious stones as pendants from their ears, and persons of high social rank or of great wealth deck their wrists and upper arm with bracelets of gold.” Arrian quotes a passage from Nearchos and says that the Indians “wear an undergarment of cotton which reaches below the knee half way down and also an upper garment. They wear shoes made of white leather.” Ancient India (McCrindle).