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[Full title: Materials of worship (1) Sadhana of the Sadhaka (3) Dress code]

Dress and dressing play an important part in ritual worship. Clothing of specific material and specific colour quicken the process of result. A survey of the different specified colours and the clothing materials is taken for study. The Mahalakshmi Ratnakosa speaks of three colours - red, black and white. The use of colours in ritual worship is age old. In the Dharmasutras, the use of coloured clothes is stated. The Bhaudayana-dharmasutra states that the officiating priest should wear red coloured clothes and red coloured turbans at the animal sacrifices, the soma sacrifices etc... which are undertaken for the purpose of sorcery 8³. The Gautama-dharmasutra prohibits the use of red colour by a student of the graduate student$4. 83 In the Puranas a red coloured garment is stated to be worth giving while the blue colour is to be avoided 85. Red is the favourite colour of the goddess. Though clothes of other colours are mentioned and offered, the goddess is offered red coloured clothing in general. It is observed that the worshipper of the goddess wears red colour clothes and red colour flowers in worship. Scientifically too, red colour is stated to experience minimum change⁹6. The use of red coloured clothes in initiation ritual is recommended. It is stated in the Guptasadhana-tantra 87 that initiation by a female preceptor clad in red clothes is highly conducive of result. 83 Bhaudayana-dharmasutra 1.13.9 84 Gautama-dharmasutra VIII.4. 85 Kali-purana L.22 86 Naralikar J. A Cosmic Adventure ch II p.6,7. 87 Guptasadhana-tantra ch I

Sadhaka worshipping the goddess cald in red. 348 Each colour has a specific function and thus, according to the Mahalakshmi Ratnakosa, red coloured clothes are used in acts related to bring others into submission, the white coloured clothes are stated to bestow peace, the black coloured clothes are for sorcery and the multi-coloured clothes in all the other activities 88.