Early evidence of the dupatta can be traced to the , where the sculpture of the Priest-King whose left shoulder is covered with some kind of a chaddar, suggests that the use of the dupatta dates back to this early Early literature has a wide vocabulary of terms for the veils and scarfs used by women during the ancient period, such as Avagunthana meaning cloak-veil, Uttariya meaning shoulder-veil.
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