. Indo-Aryans: contributions towards the elucidation of their ancient and mediaeval history. ropean ballet girls. In the Toy Cart of Sudraka, which dates from thefirst century before Christ, the mother of a rich courtezanis described as arrayed in flowered muslin with her feetthrust into a pair of slippers,]: showing that in ancient times, asin the present day, women of the town were in the habit ofwearing shoes. Whether family women ever used them Ihave not yet been able to discover ; but there is no textforbidding such use that I am aware of At Sanchi there is a corps of musicians dressed in
. Indo-Aryans: contributions towards the elucidation of their ancient and mediaeval history. ropean ballet girls. In the Toy Cart of Sudraka, which dates from thefirst century before Christ, the mother of a rich courtezanis described as arrayed in flowered muslin with her feetthrust into a pair of slippers,]: showing that in ancient times, asin the present day, women of the town were in the habit ofwearing shoes. Whether family women ever used them Ihave not yet been able to discover ; but there is no textforbidding such use that I am aware of At Sanchi there is a corps of musicians dressed in kilts,and wearing sandals, tied to the leg by crossed bands,very much in the same way in which the ancient Greciansfastened their sandals. Nothing similar to them has any- Vishnu Ilirana, Book II., chap. I\Linu, Ch. IV. 66. X ^Jai/nya.—And pray who is that lady dressed in flowered muslin, good-ly person truly; her feet, shining with oil, thrust into a pair of slippers? she sitsin state on a gorgeous throne. ////. That is my ladys mother. Wilsons Hindu Theatre, II., p. S7. [ 224 ].
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