Meenakshi, That miniature was the reason I went searching for a good starting point and didn't buy commercially-produced churidar (though I did some shopping...
I admit, I wear modern style churidar sometimes. I have stacks of them, and they look really cool and make a great base layer in silk. One of the reason I am...
Thank you so much for posting those scans; I have used them several times over the past few months, and they're especially great because you've posted them at...
Does anyone have some resources for period Indian food and beverages? I'm having a tough time finding anything concrete in writing. Thank you! Jamila...
Jamila, There's a wealth of discussion in the archived messages on this list (a simple search for food turns up approximately 700 messages). I would recommend...
Margavati, Oh thank you! I didn't even realize those links were there, lol. See now this is why I am more comfortable in Medieval times...I'm not the most...
Jamila, No worries! And if you come up with a specific question that hasn't been answered in one of the past discussions, there are several people on this list...
Jamila, Do you have a particular time & place you're looking for information on? The best place to start is Achaya, K.T. Indian Food: A Historical Companion....
This wasn't as good and detailed as Madhavi's findings, but I couldn't help notice that when I was in India, alot of the temples I visited were right next to...
Up here in the East Kingdom, it's been pretty wet. Rhode Island had some really serious flooding, but I have not first hand accounts. My basement was a private...
There are some things that you have to have a ritual bath after doing, such as handling the dead. Cremation grounds are next to water for this reason. You...
This reminds me of a passage in the Kamasutra regarding fellatio. The sumation is that its not something you would ask of your wife due to purity (possibly a...
OK, I"m confused on words again. I thought sati was the practice of widows throwing themselves on the funeral pyre? Tevi On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:40 PM,...
This makes me giggle and think it's a very complicated way of saying "dude don't bug or I'm never doing it again!" It reminds me that one woman in India...
I saw a travel show, I think with Micheal Palin, in Tibet where women get to go to a special retreat house. And from what the male comenetator said it sounded...
... Now I might be crossing words, but I'm reasonably sure I'm not. From what I've read sati is ritual suicide of a widow, but it is also a term for ritual...
Hmmm..... the menstruation thing and the bathing thing made me think physical cleanliness/purity of the body during sex. Oddly enough, neither the Kamasutra...
... Lalita, Your posts are very informative and thought-provoking. I hope it does not demean them to say you ave given me a pavilion decorating idea. :) -...
When you think of the difficulty pre-chlorine bleach of getting fabric white and then keeping it white, that makes a certain amount of sense. If it has a...
I have read that the sex sculptures on temple walls are in honor of the union of male and female energies which came together in sexual union and created the...
I love your cliff notes thank you. And as Tevi has both a husband and a son in the Army I need to know these things. Tevi ... -- Ro'ah Chatulim I love your...
Now the servants bathing the man, could this also be a way of discreetly checking for STDs? Tevi ... -- Ro'ah Chatulim Now the servants bathing the man, could...
It most certainly was. Lalitadasa ... Date: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:35:17 pm To: SCA_India@yahoogroups.com From: "Elewyiss the Jew" <elewyiss@...> ...
So what happened if they found evidence of an STD? Where the men turned away? Did they have some barrier method of prevention? Home remedies? On Thu, Apr 8,...
If a client was found to be ill He was refunded a percentage of his money and asked not to return. To knowingly infect a sex worker was a crime, kinda like...
Uh, my peeps? Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing? http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24069 Is the woman in the far right, the woman with two...
It does look like pants, but I'm not going to rule out a pants-looking wrap. The ankles thing makes me lean towards some kind of "pants" wrap. Rashid...
I'm thinking  that she is in a skirt and the painter captured her in mid stride.   Kananbala ... From: Charles <unclrashid@...> Subject: [SCA_India]...
I agree, it looks like pants. The ankles might be the attempt to show the pants moving, it is hard to say since you cannot see the bottom of her non-bent...
