The celebrated Raja Jai Singh of Ambar had espoused a princess of Haravati (of the house of Kota), whose manners and garb, accordant with the simplicity of that provincial capital, subjected her to the badinage of the more advanced court of Ambar, whose ladies had exchanged their national dress for that of the Moghal imperial court at Delhi.
One day, when alone with his bride, the prince began playfully to contrast the sweeping jupe of Kotah with the more scanty robe of the belles of his own capital, and, taking up a pair of scissors, said he would reduce it to an equality with the latter.
Offended at such levity, she seized his sword, and, assuming a threatening attitude, said that in the house to which she had the honour to belong, they were not habituated to jests of such a nature; and she assured him, that if he ever again so insulted her, (or the national dress), he would find that the daughters of Kota could use a sword more effectively than the princes of Ambar the scissors, adding, that she would prevent any further scion of her house from being subjected to similar disrespect, by declaring such intermarriages tilac, or forbidden, which interdict yet exists.
(TOD'S ANNALS OF RAJASTHAN)
One day, when alone with his bride, the prince began playfully to contrast the sweeping jupe of Kotah with the more scanty robe of the belles of his own capital, and, taking up a pair of scissors, said he would reduce it to an equality with the latter.
Offended at such levity, she seized his sword, and, assuming a threatening attitude, said that in the house to which she had the honour to belong, they were not habituated to jests of such a nature; and she assured him, that if he ever again so insulted her, (or the national dress), he would find that the daughters of Kota could use a sword more effectively than the princes of Ambar the scissors, adding, that she would prevent any further scion of her house from being subjected to similar disrespect, by declaring such intermarriages tilac, or forbidden, which interdict yet exists.
(TOD'S ANNALS OF RAJASTHAN)