Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.330
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.330
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c5.330
LIGHT AND FUEL. We do get mention of lamps (dīpā) which were lighted after sunset,¹² but we have no idea as to the kind and construction of the lamps. Probably they were simple lamps, made of a tin box containing oil—similar to the lamps still to be seen in remote villages. The forest folk and the itinerants, on the other hand, carried torches (ukkā: alātam) probably made of grass.¹³