पेसस्

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Pesas denotes in the Rigveda and later an embroidered garment such as a female dancer would wear. The fondness of the Indians for such raiment is noted by Megasthenes and by Arrian, who refer to their . So in one passage a garment (vastra) is called peśana, with which Roth happily compares the Roman vestis coloribus intexta. The making of such garments was a regular occupation of women, as is indicated by the Peśas-kārī, the ‘female embroiderer,’ figuring in the list of victims at the Puruṣamedha (‘human sacrifice’) in the Yajurveda, though the, commentator on the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa interprets the word as ‘wife of a maker of gold.’ Pischel, however, thinks that Peśas never means anything but colour or form.