Ascetic garb
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
matted locks · bark garments · bark-cloth · black-antelope hide · coarse cloak · deerskin · girdle · sandals of untanned leather · valkala
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The bark-cloth, antelope-skin, and matted hair characteristic of forest ascetics, worn by Rāma and, unexpectedly, by Bharata.
"Bring the piṇyāka paste of iṅgudi fruit, and fetch an upper garment of bark-cloth;
"For what reason have you, wearing a black-antelope skin and matted hair, abandoned the kingdom and entered this forest?
"What is this that I wish to hear from your own lips—why have you come to this region dressed in bark-cloth, matted locks, and a black-antelope hide?
Letters
The simple garments taken as a sign of ascetic seriousness.
Since, then, the things in secret of each of us are uncertain, I considered the lowliness of clothing a sufficient indication of lowliness of mind, and the coarse cloak was enough for my full conviction, and the girdle, and the sandals of untanned leather.