It is a single piece of cloth that falls from the back of the neck to curl around both arms and could also drape the top half of the body.
[5] The Vedas describe the garment to comprise various loose cloths worn for upper body such as upavasana, parayanahana and adhivasa, varhatika and varnaka, uttarsangha samvyana.
[5] The garments worn in the Vedic period mainly included a single cloth wrapped around the whole body and draped over the shoulder.
As per mention in Buddhist Pali literature during the 6th century BC, Sari śāṭikā (Sanskrit: शाटिका) is an evolved form of combining Sattanapatta, the uttariya and the antariya.
[15][16] Laymen of the Buddhist community would typically be dressed with the antariya, accompanied by an uttariya and a larger chadder, all colored in saffron.