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Re: REQUEST: Forehead Dot?
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Subject: Re: REQUEST: Forehead Dot?
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 03:15:52 GMT
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Apparently-To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Consolidated Braincells Inc.
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References: <ghenDw95uv.5o1@netcom.com>
gmcghee@mailer.fsu.edu (GLEN M MCGHEE) wrote in article
<ghenDw95uv.5o1@netcom.com>...
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> Can anyone give information on the forehead dot worn by Hindus?
> What does it represent?
This is a traditional custom, there is no big ideology behind it as far as
I know. Women wear a "forehead dot" (We call it a chandalo in Gujarati)
to show they are married. Men usually make a chandalo as part of their
morning prayers. As part of the service in the mandir (or temple) we put
a chandalo on God. There it is a gesture of respect.
> What myth or story is connected with it,
Does there have to be one? I guess I'll have to answer don't know to that
one.
> and most importantly, when is the first documented use of this
> forehead ornament?
Again don't know and from my perspective don't care. It's been a practice
since very ancient times though.
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