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NOTES ON FEMALE TATTOO DESIGNS IN INDIA.
female power, yoni. Compare Sûdrakamalakara's Rules of Worship for the Sudrâs. When a Brahman performs a religious ceremony in the house of a Sûdra he draws a triangle in water on
the ground and not a svastika
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"twice-borns." This triangle is called yoni in the text mentioned above.
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8. These are triangles, the mystic representations of the
9. This is the emblem of the fish :
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or a square , as he would in the house of one of the
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But what is a "fish" and why is it lucky? Originally it represented the female power, the Joni, thus
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