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416 THE NATYASASTRA [XXIII. 28

Breast ornaments

28. The necklaces with the most artistic work¹ are to be ornaments of the breasts.

The jewelled net is the ornament of the breasts (or the back)².

Arm ornaments

29. The arm-band (aṅgada)¹ and the bangles (valaya)² are ornaments of upper (lit. the root of the) arms.

The Varjura³ and the Svecchitikā⁴ are ornaments of the fore-arm.

Finger ornaments

30. The Kaṭaka¹, the Kalaśākha², the Hastapatra³, the Supūraka⁴ and the ring (mudrāṅgulīyaka)⁵ are ornaments of fingers.

Hip ornaments

31. The Kāñcī¹ with a net of pearls, the Kulaka, Mekhalā, the Raśanā and the Kalāpa are ornaments of the hip (śroṇī).

32. The Kāñcī is [a girdle] of one string, the Mekhalā of eight, the Raśanā of sixteen and the Kalāpa¹ of twenty-five strings.

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28 (C. 33b-34a; K.XXI.26). ¹ nānā-ratnakṛta (in K.) meaning 'made up of many jewels'.
² Pṛṣṭha-vibhūṣaṇa (in K.) meaning 'ornaments of the back'.
29 (C.34b-35a; K.XXI.28b, 28a). ¹ K's reading is corrupt. See above 18 note 2.
² It is now-a-days called ananta in Bengal. Kālidāsa's Yakṣa (Megha, I. 2) had a kind of valaya in his prakoṣṭha (fore-arm).
³ This seems to connected with the bāju still in use among women of rural areas in Bengal.
⁴ Svecchitikā—This was not heard of before.
30 (C.35b-36a; K.XXI.27b, 27a). ¹ K. reads of 30a as śaṅkha-kalāpī. kaṭakaṁ tathā syāt patrapūrakam. Kaṭaka is usually met with in the sense of an ornament of the wrists. ² This was never met with before.
³ This was never met with before. There is however an ornament hasta-sūtra (Apte). ⁴ This was not met with before.
31 (C.36bc; K.XXI.29). ¹ K. reads 31a differently. All the ornaments except kulaka have been defined in 32 below. Kulaka seems to be a girdle of the special kind.
32 (C.37; K.XXI.30). ¹ Kalāpa seems to have been used by Kālidāsa in the sense of a necklace (Kumāra I. 42).