FUN FACTS OF HISTORY
5. What did people eat during Mauryan times? They ate many things that we eat today, like the sweet rice and milk pudding we call kheer or payasam, rotis, puris, ghee, curd, and even mango pickle!
6. People wore three sets of clothing - the antariya, which was tied like a dhoti or lungi, the kayabandh, which was a sash securing the antariya at the waist, and the uttariya, which was a long strip of cloth, like a shawl, that was wrapped over the upper body.