The University of Nalanda c13.97

c13.97

Now, there were three such robes.⁵ One was a double waist-cloth, the other a single upper robe, and the third was a single under garment. In a note to this passage the translator tells us how these garments were used. "The waist cloth," says he, "was wrapped round the waist and back, and secured with a girdle. The under garment was wrapped round the loins and reached below the knee, being fastened round by an end of the cloth being tucked in there, and sometimes also by a girdle. The upper robe was wrapped round the legs from the loins to the ankles, and the end was then drawn, at the back, from the right hip, over the left shoulder, and either allowed to fall down in front, or drawn back again over the right shoulder, and allowed to fall down on the back." The colour of the garment was usually yellow.¹