Editing Blanket (section)

==History==
An ancient form of blanket is recorded as {{Lang|Sa|"Kambala"}}. The 7th century Chinese traveler and scholar [[Xuanzang]] mentioned the stuff in his travelogue of his journey to India in 629–645 CE. He refers to "Kambala" as a woolen material made from sheep or goat's hair. He categorized it as a kind of material for clothing.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Thomas |last=Watters |url=http://archive.org/details/OnYuanChwangsTravelsInIndia629645AD|title=On Yuan Chwang'S Travels in India, 629-645 A. D.|date=1904|pages=149|language=en|quote="The third group is the kambala. This word, which denotes "woollen cloth" and "a blanket""}}</ref> The [[Sanskrit]] meaning of Kambala is 'a woolen blanket."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=R. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UX_AeDYzhBQC&dq=Kambala+blanket&pg=PA139 |title=A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages |date=1999 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |isbn=978-81-208-1665-7 |pages=139 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sanskrit Dictionary|url=https://sanskritdictionary.com/?q=kambala|access-date=2022-02-05|website=sanskritdictionary.com}}</ref> According to India's ancient text, the [[Atharvaveda]], kambala is a generic term for materials such as shawls and blankets.<ref name=":0" /> Known as "Kambali" in Kannada and Tamil, these thick coarse blankets are woven with sheep wool whose texture is extremely coarse and thick to provide adequate warmth in winter.<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Handloom Day Special: Reviving Karnataka's timeless tradition of weaving the 'kambli' to empower Kuruba pastoralists|url=https://thesouthfirst.com/featured/reviving-kambli-weaving-to-empower-kuruba-pastoralist/|access-date=16 July 2024|website=thesouthfirst.com|date=7 August 2023}}</ref>

{{Lang|Sa|Pandu-Kambala}} was a type of Kambala from [[Gandhara|Gandhāra]], Ancient Indian scholar [[Pāṇini]] mentioned "pandu-kambala" from the upper parts of Gandhara, the place was "Uddiyana," which was famous for the said blankets.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Agrwala|first=V. S.|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7819|title=India as known to Panini|date=1953|publisher=Banaras Hindu University, Banaras|pages=49, 42, 128}}</ref> Some more variations of old Indian blankets are "keca-lakah", "kalamitika", "talicchakam", "varavanah", "sarumitika", "paristomah", "samanatabhad", "turangastaranam", "varnakam", "paristomah", "samanatabhad". Coarse qualities were used by farmers, and herdsmen. Some of them were used to spread out on the backs of animals like horses, elephants, and bullocks.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/handwovenfabrics0000unse|title=Handwoven fabrics of India|date=1989|location=Ahmedabad  |publisher= Mapin Pub.|isbn=978-0-944142-26-4|pages=61, 33}}</ref>