Etymology[edit]
The
word sari described in Sanskrit शाटी śāṭī[9] which
means 'strip of cloth'[10] and
शाडी śāḍī or
साडी sāḍī in Pali, and which was
corrupted to sāṛī in modern Indian languages.[11] The
word 'Sattika' is mentioned as describing women's attire in ancient India
in Sanskrit literature
and Buddhist literature called Jatakas.[12] This
could be equivalent to modern day 'Sari'.[12] The
term for female bodice, the choli evolved from ancient Stanapatta.[13][14] Rajatarangini (meaning
the 'river of kings'), a tenth-century literary work by Kalhana, states that
the choli from the Deccan was introduced under the royal order
in Kashmir.[7]
The
petticoat is called parkar (परकर) in Marathi, pavadai (பாவாடை) in Tamil (pavada in
other parts of South India: Malayalam: പാവാട, Telugu: పావడ, translit. pāvāḍai, Kannada: ಪಾವುಡೆ, translit. pāvuḍe)
and shaya (সায়া) in Bengali and
eastern India. Apart from the standard "petticoat", it may also be
called "inner skirt"[15]or an
inskirt.
