Threshold Designs, Forehead Dots, and Menstruation Rituals:

Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nagarajan, Vijaya Rettakudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auspiciousness; Hindu women; Householders; Kolam; Menstruation; Pottus; Religious practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933474965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177060.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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