Rings for the finger : $b from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.Kunz, George Frederick
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Rings for the finger : $b from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.
Kunz, George Frederick
Rings; Rings -- Folklore
_Sukti-mudriká._--Ring made like the hood of a cobra snake,
with diamonds and precious stones on the upper surface.
_Mudrá_ or _Anguli-mudrá_.--Ring with name engraved upon
it.
These are some of the principal names for finger rings in modern
India:
_Angushtri._--A ring set with stones, called also
_Mundri_ or _Anguthi_.
_Chhallá._--The _chhallá_ is a quite plain hoop or whole
hoop ring (with or without stones), being gold or silver, but the
same all round. Worn also on the toes.
_Angushtárá_ or _Anguthá_.--A big ring with a broad
face, worn on the great toe.
_Khari panjángla._--A set of finger rings of ordinary shape.
_Sháhálami_ or _Khári_.--A ring of long oval shape.
_Birhamgand._--A broad ring.
In Bombay, the local designations for finger rings are:
_Angthi_, _Salle_, _Mohorechi Angthi_ and
_Khadyachya angthya_; toe-rings are named: _Ranajodvi_,
_Jodvi_, _Phule_, _Gend_, and _Masolia_.[130]
[Illustration: Oriental gold ring, large globular bezel with
leaves and flowers in openwork. Said to have belonged to Chief
Samory
British Museum]
[Illustration: Oriental rings. 1, of cast silver; 2, of brass; 3,
of silver; 4–6, Moorish rings; 4, set with turquoise and rubies;
5, with octagonal bloodstone and turquoise; 6, signet-ring
bearing name of owner on a carnelian
Fairholt’s “Rambles of an Artist”]
[Illustration: 1, ring with pendent garnets; 2, silver ring. East
Indian. The loose-hung silver drops jingle as the hand moves
Fairholt’s “Rambles of an Artist”]
[Illustration: Elaborate East Indian ring, with figure of Buddha.
Hoop of peculiar shape to keep the ring from falling off the
finger
Courtesy of Miss Helen Bainbridge]
[Illustration: Rings made by Siamese Bonza, or Priest, from metal
lying about among the idols at Ongchor, Old Cambodia, in 1871
Courtesy of Mr. Walter C. Wyman]
Rings, necklaces, armlets and _Sirpech_ (or tiaras) are made at
Bikánir, and exquisitely light and fine rings of gold and silver are
produced at Jhánsi in the Gwalior territory. An unusual form of ring
ornamentation appears in a silver ring of Indian workmanship, dated in
the fourteenth or fifteenth century. This has a projecting bezel in
the form of a spur, with a revolving swivel. A ring of similar design,
believed to be Venetian, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, was
brought from Chalis.[131]
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