Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c5.82
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c5.82
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c5.82
Of the fibre-crops, cotton (kappāsa) was of course the most important.¹⁰ Other kinds of fabrics, viz., silk (koseyya), wool (kambala) and linen (khoma)¹¹ are also mentioned, but we do not know as to the extent to which these articles were produced. It is also probable that the aloe-fibre was grown and utilised.¹² The śalmali or simbali or the simul (silk-cotton) trees which yield a silky fibre, were known.¹³ But no information is at hand as to whether these fibres were converted into fine silk or not.