#flower garlands

Floral garlands often gifted as offerings to show respect, worn to show prestige or given as souvenirs.

The first recorded mention is during the reign of King Chulalongkorn which is a little after the era the film is set (though not by a huge margin historically speaking) but there are references to flower garlands being used in the earlier Sukhothai period and it's thought that there may be a link with the ancient Chola kingdom (of South India) which had once controlled parts of Thailand.

Also, we see Princess Rochana giving Sang Thong a garland in their dance scene together so I decided it was fine to include them even if we don't know exactly how they would have looked at that time because the film did so. 😅

Hell yeah

To my ruthlessness in not remembering her To my refusal to proclaim to a secret love Her eyebrows react, curving with grace, As if in anger a bow is being snapped. Shakuntala Recognised: A Sanskrit play by Kalidasa.

Still of Archana Joglekar as Shakuntala in the court of Dushyanta, probably circa 1986.