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
_______________________________________________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 Koch www.rolfheinrichkoch.wordpress.com
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