Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)
Author:
Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana—one of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.
Social and Economic Life
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change of his clothes or ornaments. And transparent raiment
{fice, or
whatever is much damaged, whatever is infested with dice, or
has been trampled on, or has been looked at by dogs, and has
p
been licked or thrown down or has been befooled by the extract-
ion of pus should be avoided (221.53-55).
Kinds of Cloth
Various types of cloth are referred to from an
examination of which it can be concluded that the use of cotton,
silk and woolen clothes was quite in vogue. The term
(kosakara! (217.92) suggests that the silk clothes were used.
The Br. P. lists two terms & referring to the trades depending
on cloth, viz. vastravikrayaka and vastrasucaka (44.30,32).
The term 'vastrasucaka' suggests that the art of tailoring was
known.
Asuka:
It is a type of silk made from cocoons
(silk-worm) 20. The Br. P. states that one who steals amsuka
is born as a parrot (217.93). According to the Brhatkalpasutra
-bhagya (4.33,61), Z is explained as 'Kosikarakhyah krmlh
tasmajjatan' or 'Cinanamajanapadah tatra yah slaksnatarapatah
20 Cinamsuka
For details vide Agrawala V.S., Harsacarita, eka samskr-
tika adhyayana (in Hindi), P. 78; Moti Chandra, Pracina
Bharatiya Vesabhusa (in Hindi), PP. 148, 153, 154.
