The sacred girdle worn by the Maga Brahmins, the priesthood associated with Sun-worship in India. Its Avestan cognate, and the comparison with the Zoroastrian kusti, are part of a genuinely disputed case for an Iranian layer in Indian Sun-worship.

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  …ng Shakadvipiya families at Bikaner in November 2016, asked about the avyanga , the girdle the Puranic texts prescribe for the Sun's devotees and which scholars have long identified with the Zoroastrian kusti .

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