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...Wedding Costume. Inquiry revealed that Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Five Ms | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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