History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c20.17
History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c20.17
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Women attending auspicious functions like marriages and brides were attired in clothes coloured in Kusumbha flowers (Carthalus tinctories). Ascetics wore saffron red garments and were known as kaṣāya (YY. II.1; XII.14; Viv. P. 10.12).
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- Yājñavalkyasmṛti — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit
- Viṣṇupurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit