"You should not be taken aback if you find that the practice of applying sindura (vermilion) to the simanta/manga partition of the hair on the head) by Hindu womenfolk is rooted back in the Harappan Civilization itself."
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Preface in, Lal, B. B. (2002). The Sarasvatī flows on : the continuity of Indian culture. Aryan Books International.
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