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Chapter LXXXVII

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2. Skirt, _ghagari_, not now a separate garment, but that part of the _sārī_ which forms a skirt. But in Vidyāpati's day the costume of Bengālī women seems to have been that of Western Hindustan (skirt, bodice and veil), familiar in Rājput paintings. In this case the _nībībandha_ (see Introduction p. 11), is actually the skirt-string, and the translation as 'zone' or 'girdle' is not inappropriate, nor that of _añcala_ as 'wimple' or 'veil.'

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8. Like the 'neither within or without' of Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad, IV, 3, 33: 'beyond the striving winds of love and hate'--Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.

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