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@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 Koch
www.rolfheinrichkoch.wordpress.com

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