Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c14.56

c14.56

General view: Living and Clothing. Taking all the Greek versions together, we find that the Brahmans are described as living (1) on the mountains, (2) in the woods, (3) in the plains, (4) in the cities and (5) in the country. Some go naked, some, those of the mountains, wear deer-skins. Those of the country side also wear ‘skins of fawns or antelopes.’ Those of the towns are dressed in fine muslin, wear finger-rings and ear-rings of gold, “with skins of deer or of gazelles hung from their shoulders, growing beards and long hair which is twisted up and covered by a turban” [*Cambridge History*, I. 422]. Those of the woods wear garments of barks of trees. As students, they lie on beds of rushes and skins which they also wear.