Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s20.8

c9.s20.8

Then the following garments were worn in the upper part of the body by the nuns: *kañcuka*, which measured two and half hands (the standard being one’s own fore-arm) in length and one in width, and was firmly tied on both sides on the waist and covered the breasts. Another was *ukkacchī* (*aupakakṣikī*); it was a garment like *kañcuka*, square in shape on the right side; it measured one and a half hands, and covering the breasts and the back was knotted on the left shoulders The third was *vegacchyā* (*vaikakṣikī*); it was knotted on the right shoulders, otherwise it was like *aupakakṣikī*. The fourth was *sanghāta*; they were four in number; one measured two hands, two three hands, and one four hands. The first was to be worn in the cloister (*pratisraya*), the second and the third out of door, and the last for assemblies (*samavasarana*).¹¹⁶ The fifth was *khandhakaranī* which was like a wrapper fourteen hands in length, square in shape and was worn to save oneself from the strong wind. It covered the shoulder and the body. This was used to dwarf the stature of the beautiful nuns by placing it at the back and tying it with *aupakakṣikī* and *vaikakṣikī*.¹¹⁷