The Divine Mother has
broad hips covered by a silky garment. This garment is red in colour similar to
the raising morning Sun. The Safflower (Kausumbha) red blossoms extract is used
to dye the Divine Mother’s garment.
Kausumbha (Safflower)
extract is commonly used to dye the clothes.
Kausumbha Vasta: The cloth
which is dyed with extract from Kausumbha or Safflower.
Two types of garments
are best liked by the Divine mother:
1.
Raktamsukadha:
A blood red (deep red) garment.
2.
Pitavastra: Yellow
coluored garment.
Aruna is reddish brown
or the charioteer for Sun God. It is used here to mean that Aruna the Sun charioteer
brings the reddishness to the world before the Sun raises.
Arunaruna is used two
times to express the deep reddishness.
Safflower can be defined
as an orange flowered thistle or like Eurasian plant with seeds that yield edible
oil and petals which are used to produce a red or yellow dye.
C N
Nachiappun
Singapore, 01
March 2020.
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