Religious Thought And Life in India : An Account of the Religions of the Indian Peoples, Based On a Life's Study of Their Literature And On Personal Investigations in Their Own Country
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It should also be noted that special religious shavings are performed at sacred places of pilgrimage on the banks of rivers, and are held to be very efficacious in purifying soul and body from pollution. Persons who have committed great crimes or are troubled by uneasy consciences, travel hun- dreds, of miles to Prayaga (Allahabad), Mathura (Muttra), or other holy places for the sole, purpose of submitting them- selves to the tonsorial skill of the professional barbers who frequent such localit...ies. There they may be released from every sin by first being relieved of every hair and then plung- ing into the sacred stream. Forthwith they emerge new crea- tures, with all the accumulated guilt of a long life effaced.
Women, on the other hand, are most careful to preserve their hair intact. They pride themselves on its length and weight. For a woman to have to part with her hair is one of the greatest of degradations, and the most terrible of all trials. It is the mark of widowhood. Yet in some sacred places, especially at the confluence of rivers, the cutting off and offering of a few locks of hair (Venl-danam) by a vir- tuous wife is considered a highly meritorious act.
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It should also be noted that special religious shavings are performed at sacred places of pilgrimage on the banks of rivers, and are held to be very efficacious in purifying soul and body from pollution. Persons who have committed great crimes or are troubled by uneasy consciences, travel hun- dreds, of miles to Prayaga (Allahabad), Mathura (Muttra), or other holy places for the sole, purpose of submitting them- selves to the tonsorial skill of the professional barbers who frequent such localit...ies. There they may be released from every sin by first being relieved of every hair and then plung- ing into the sacred stream. Forthwith they emerge new crea- tures, with all the accumulated guilt of a long life effaced.
Women, on the other hand, are most careful to preserve their hair intact. They pride themselves on its length and weight. For a woman to have to part with her hair is one of the greatest of degradations, and the most terrible of all trials. It is the mark of widowhood. Yet in some sacred places, especially at the confluence of rivers, the cutting off and offering of a few locks of hair (Venl-danam) by a vir- tuous wife is considered a highly meritorious act.
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