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

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Dr. Rolf Heinrich Koch
www.rolfheinrichkoch.wordpress.com