Life in Ancient India as Depicted in Jain Canons

SR No.: 011077
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagdishchandra Jain
Publisher: New Book Company
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 429
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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PRODUCTION
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Perfumes and various other articles were sold in the markets; perfumers' shops (gandhiyasala) were also common in those times..
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The feet were rubbed, kneaded (samvaha), stroked (palimaddana), painted (raya), smeared (makkha) and anointed (abblunga) with oil, ghee, or marrow; they were rubbed (ullodha) and shampooed (uvvala) with lodhra, ground drugs (kakka), powder (cunna) or dye (vanna), washed with hot or cold water, anointed with ointment and perfumed with incense.
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Then among the articles of toilets and cosmetics of women mention may be made of collyrium box (añjni), 235 lodhra-powder, lodhra-flowers, pills (guliya), kustha, tagara, agaru pounded with usira, oil for anointing the face and lip-salve (nandicunna) Myrobalans (amalaga), stick to paint the mark upon the forchead (tilagakarani), pin to apply collyrium 237 to the eyes (anjanasalaga), pincers (sandasaga), comb (phantha), ribbon to bind up the hair (sihalipasaga), looking glass (adamsaga), aleca nut (pūyaphala) and betel (tambolaya)
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OTHER OCCUPATIONS
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Besides the above-mentioned people who lived by the plough, by herds, and by merchandise, there were other occupations where utilities 'consisted in a mere service rendered and not m actual labour Amongst them may be mentioned those who embraced learned professions, such as teachers (ayariya), physicians (tegicchaka vejja), men qualified in testing sites for house-building (vatthupadhaga), men well-versed in the science of prognostication (lakkhanapadhaka) and fortune-tellers (nemiltaka). Amongst those who amused the public were musicians (gandhavvia), acrobats (nada), dancers (nattaga), rope-walkers (jalla), wrestlers (malla), boxers (mutthiya), Jesters (velambaya), reciteis (kahaga), jumpers (pavaga), ballad-reciters (läsaga), story-tellers (arkkhaga), pole-dancers (lankha), picture-show-men (mankha), pipers (tunailla), lute-players (tumbavinya), snake charmers (bhujaga), minstrels (magaha), 239 jesters (hasakara), buffoons (damarakara), flatterers (catukara), love-makers (kandappakaia) and mimes (kokkunya). Then there were various attendants on the king such as foot-soldiers carrying an umbrella, throne, footstool, pair of sandals (sapauya), staff-carriers (latthiggaha), spear-carriers (kunta), bow-carriers (cava), chowiy-carriers (camara), fetter-carriers
133 Vya. Bha. 23, cf ten kinds of gandhas múla, sara, pheggu, taca, papatika, rasa, puppha phala, patta and gandha (Paramatthadipani, the com. on the Udana. p 300)
284 Aca, II, 13 395, also Brh. Bha 5 6035.
285 also see Ramayana II. 91. 76
336 It was well stocked in the Mauryan treasury for the purpose of making perfume, incense, etc. Aloe-wood is a large ever green tree of Sylhet and Tenassarım, Dr Motichand, op cit, p 85, also see Arthasastra, p 80
237 In the Mahiwagga (VI. n 1) five kinds of eye-ointment or collyrium are mentioned; black collyrium, 'rasa' ointments, 'sota' ointment obtained from the streams and rivers, 'geruka' and 'kahalla' or soot obtained from the flame of a lamp
18 Suya 4 2 7 ff, for tambul see Girija Prasanna Majumdar's article on Food in the Indian Culture 1, 1-4, p 419.
208 Ova p.2