Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.727

c19.727

The country of Golla is referred to in Jain texts in several places. It is said that the month of caitra was very cold in this country and hence the Jain monks were allowed to wear two garments, one under and one upper.²⁴⁸ The murder of any human being was as much condemned here as the slaying of a Brāhmaṇa.²⁴⁹ A concoction was prepared in this country from dried mango-chips and was used as a drink Virālyā, a vegetable root, was known here as vallī,²⁵⁰ and pālaga as sāga ²⁵¹ Golla was also noted for ankakareluya and other vegetables ²⁵²