viRaliyar (Musicians in the Near East)

[Valerie J Roebuck]

Perhaps they were wearing diaphanous cotton garments, as we see in
sculptures at Amaravati and elsewhere?

(Sorry, I can't read Tamil, so I'm just having to guess how revealing they
were!)

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

N. Ganesan writes
>
>All this leads an early translator of pattuppATTu to write:
>"The songstress seems to have been quite naked, as otherwise
>her whole body could not have been described."
>(J. V. Chelliah, Pattupattu, SISS society, Madras, 1962, p. 55)