antariya
File:Raja Ravi Varma - Mahabharata - Shakuntala.jpg and her friends wearing an antariya, Raja Ravi Varma.]]
{{short description|Ancient Indian lower body garment}}
An antariya ({{transl|sa|ISO|antarīya}}) is a lower body garment from ancient India. It is a long white or coloured strip of cotton passed through the legs, tucked at the back and covering the legs loosely, then flowing into long pleats at front of the legs.{{Cite book|last1=Nair|first1=Rukmini Bhaya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6XFDwAAQBAJ&q=An+antariya+is+a+lower+garment+from+ancient+India.&pg=PT94|title=Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century|last2=deSouza|first2=Peter Ronald|date=2020-02-20|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-350-03925-4|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Mehta|first=Tarla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l7naMj1UxIkC&q=An+antariya+is+a+lower+garment+from+ancient+India.&pg=PA172|title=Sanskrit Play Production in Ancient India|date=1995|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ.|isbn=978-81-208-1057-0|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Ayyar|first=Sulochana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9eHPXL6UE0C&q=An+antariya+is+a+lower+garment+from+ancient+India.&pg=PA62|title=Costumes and Ornaments as Depicted in the Sculptures of Gwalior Museum|date=1987|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-002-4|pages=62|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Shastri|first1=Ajay Mitra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhVWAAAAYAAJ&q=An+antariya+is+a+lower+garment+from+ancient+India.|title=Ancient Indian Heritage, Varahamihira's India: Historical geography, religion, and society|last2=Varāhamihira|date=1996|publisher=Aryan Books International|isbn=978-81-7305-081-7|pages=224|language=en}}
History
The antariya is an ancient garment mentioned in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.{{Cite book|last=McLain|first=Karline|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4-Su0whKa0C&q=An+antariya+is+a+lower+garment+from+ancient+India.&pg=PA72|title=India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes|date=2009|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-22052-3|pages=72|language=en}} Hindu deities can be seen wearing the uttariya and the antariya in sculptures in the Indian subcontinent,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmhDAAAAYAAJ&q=An+antariya+is+a+lower+garment+from+ancient+India.|title=Ancient India|date=1950|publisher=Director General of Archaeology in India.|pages=37|language=en}} especially in Hindu temples and other forms of iconography.
As mentioned in Buddhist Pali literature during the 6th century BC, Sari {{transl|sa|ISO|śāṭikā}} ({{langx|sa|शाटिका}}) is an evolved form of the antariya, which was one of three-piece attire worn by women during the ancient period.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QO2BAAAAMAAJ&q=Stanapatta|page=35|title=Fashion Styles of Ancient India: A Study of Kalinga from Earliest Times to Sixteenth Century Ad|first=Ramesh |last=Prasad Mohapatra|publisher=B.R. Publishing Corporation|year=1992|isbn=9788170187233}}Prachya Pratibha, 1978 "Prachya Pratibha, Volume 6", p. 121Agam Kala Prakashan, 1991 "Costume, coiffure, and ornaments in the temple sculpture of northern Andhra", p. 118
Terminology
Use
The antariya was usually made of fine cotton or silk. It was usually used in combination with the uttariya.
Gallery
File:Ajanta Paintings.jpg|Women in choli (blouse) and antariya {{circa|320 CE}}, Gupta Empire
File:In Welcome of Buddha - ACCN 34-2542 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 5941.JPG|Relief depicting men in antariya and uttariya, 1st century CE
See also
References
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