Word: dharam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orgiastic Shakta. The five elements of Shakta worship are madya (liquor), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (grain), and maithuna (sexual intercourse), and it has long been their custom to worship the Hindu goddess Shakti by seeking unity of body and soul in communal sex rites. Such is kanchalia dharam, the ceremony of the blouse...
...kanchalia dharam, the women place their upper garments in a large earthenware jar and, after all have feasted and drunk, each man draws out a garment and goes off with its owner, regardless of her marital ties...
...Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place for the ceremony of kanchalia dharam...