Tarpaya

{{Short description|Religious clothing in ancient India}}

{{Lang|sa|Tarpaya}} (taipya{{Which lang|date=July 2023}} or tarpya{{Which lang|date=July 2023}}) was a fine material used in clothing for religious rituals in ancient India.{{Cite book|last=Jamila Brij Bhushan|url=http://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.27766|title=Costumes and textiles of India|date=1958|pages=16, 17|language=English}}{{Cite book|last=Agrawal|first=Yashodhara|url=http://archive.org/details/silkbrocades00agra|title=Silk brocades|date=2003|publisher=New Delhi : Roli Books|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-81-7436-258-2|pages=13}}

Tarpaya was a fine-quality cloth that was also used in sacrificial rituals and on other occasions. The names of various cloths such as "kshauma", "panduvanik", "varasi", "durshya" and "tarpya" exist in Vedic literature and may refer to either silk or linen. It is mentioned in the Atharvaveda which says "city people wear clothes made of tarpya."

Shatapatha Brahmanas described various articles of sacrificial costume, in which tarpaya is mentioned as a lower body garment. According to the Sathapatha Brahmanas, the sacrificial garment consisted of an upper body garment made of pure undyed wool, a lower garment of silk called "tarpaya", and a turban (ushnisha).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vIaTyNvMLVEC&q=tarpaya+silk|title=The Indian Textile Journal|date=1978|publisher=Business Press|pages=102|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=A. BISWAS|url=http://archive.org/details/INDIANCOSTUMES|title=INDIAN COSTUMES|pages=6}}{{Cite web|title=ANCIENT PERIOD|url=http://indianculture.gov.in/node/2730142|access-date=2022-01-10|website=INDIAN CULTURE|language=en}}