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Volume : I, Issue : IX, October - 2011 JEWELLERY AND ORNAMENT DURING CHALUKYAN ERA Chawan Premsing Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The Jewellery and ornaments used by the aristocracy and by the communes. It
could have differed probably in the material of which the were made “So happy is
the architecture of the human from” says Hiller that the very places where the
ornaments naturally fitted were probably the best of all places which it could have
been found.
Women of Karnataka wore ornaments on all exposed parts of the body from top to
toe the weight of ornaments sometimes exceeded their body weight the
manasollasa describes length head, ear, neck, shoulder, wriest, finger, waist, leg
and toe ornaments then in vague this is confirmed from other literary texts.
Silver and Gold were the chief metal used in preparing ornaments with
sapphires diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls. Diamonds were considered
invaluable and found in hexagonal and slab shapes white, red, yellow and black Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Chawan Premsing, (2011). JEWELLERY AND ORNAMENT DURING CHALUKYAN ERA. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. IX, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/521.pdf References : - Altekar – Position of Women
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