Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s19.11

c9.s19.11

The following kinds of cloth were considered as very expensive and a monk or a nun was forbidden to use them; cloth made from skin,⁶⁸ (*āṇaga*, com *ajina*), fine cloth (*sahina*, com.*sūksma*), fine and beautiful cloth (*sahina-kallāṇa*), cloth made from goat's hair (*āya*)⁶⁹, blue cotton (*kāya*),⁷⁰ linen (*khomiya*), from the fibres of the *dugulla* plant (*dugulla*),⁷¹ *patta* fibres (patta),⁷² malaya fibres (malaya), bark-fibres⁷³ (panunna or pattunna in the Nisi. cū.), amsuya cloth (amsuya), china silk (cināmsuya), coloured cloth⁷⁴ (desarāga), spotless cloth⁷⁵ (amila), cloth making rustling noise⁷⁶ (gajjaphala), cloth as clear as crystal (phaliya),⁷⁷ “fluffy blanket”⁷⁸ (koya-va), blanket (kambalaga) and mantles (pāvāra)⁷⁹; skin cloth such as made from udra⁸⁰ (udda), from pesa fur⁸¹ (pesa), embroidered with pesa fur (pesala), made from the skin of black deer (kanhamigāina), blue deer (nīla), yellow deer (gora); cloth made from other materials, such as golden cloth (kanaka), cloth interwoven with golden tissues⁸³ (kanagakānta), cloth with borders woven with golden tissues⁸³ (kanagakānta), embroidered with golden thread⁸⁴ (kanagakhaciya), tinsel-printing⁸⁵ (kanagaphusiya),⁸⁶ cloth made from tiger’s skin (vaggha), panther’s skin (vivaggha), printed with one pattern such as leaf etc.⁸⁷ (ābharana), printed with many patterns such as leaf, candralekhā, svastika, ghantikā and mauktika etc.⁸⁸ (ābharana-vicitta).⁸⁹