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sindoor

सिंदूर sindura

The red vermilion powder a married Hindu woman traditionally wears in the parting of her hair, a mark of her married status and of auspiciousness. It is close kin to the red kumkum bindi worn at the brow.

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  • What the bindi actually means Journal

    …the good fortune of the married state, and it is close kin to the red sindoor a married woman wears in the parting of her hair.

  • Who is Hanuman? Deities

    His body is often coated in sindoor , the orange-red vermilion, by a story in which he smeared himself with it on learning that Sita wore it for Rama's long life, devotion taken to a literal extreme.

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