Re: [INDOLOGY] ratta-māla

[Harry Spier]

And of course the search will give all occurrences of

raktamālā raktamāla and raktamālya in the Muktabodha searchable e-text
library

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:38 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Rolf,
>
>  raktamāla and raktamālya occur hundreds of times in about 75 texts in
> Muktabodha's searchable e-text library.
>
> 1.  Direct link to the library is:
> https://etexts.muktabodha.org/DL_CATALOG_USER_INTERFACE/dl_user_interface_frameset.htm
>
> 2. Type* <raktamAl**>  *in the search field.  The angle brackets are
> required.  They tell the search engine you are using Kyoto-Harvard
> transliteration.
>
> 3. Click on *search for words in e-texts*.
>
> 4.  The lines where raktamāla and raktamālya occur appear in an upper
> panel.  When you click on any of these lines then the e-text opens at that
> line in a lower panel.
>
> Regards,
> Harry Spier
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:18 AM Rolf Heinrich Koch via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear listmembers,
>>
>> anyone of you came probably across a description of someone  who is
>> adorned with a *rattamāla* "a red garland of flowers"
>> And: Where, at which part of the body, he wears this garland?
>> I found two quotations in Jātakas: Here in each case it is a executioner (
>> *vadhaka*, *coraghātaka*) who is adorned with a *rattamāla*.
>> The artists of the last centuries painted the executioner with a garland
>> hanging around his neck or even across his upper body.
>> But there is another quotation, in the Vessantara-Jātaka, where the
>> Brahmin Jūjaka is adorned ... *dvīsu kaṇṇesu ratta-mālā* ...= with a
>> garland of flowers bound at each of his two ears.
>>
>> I think a *rattamāla *original adorned the ears. But I need textual
>> references.
>> Someone can help?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Heiner
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Rolf Heinrich Kochwww.rolfheinrichkoch.wordpress.com
>>
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