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- noun Alternative form of
tilak .
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Examples
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The painted markings, called tilaka, indicate his divine focus of devotion.
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We can honor all the teachers and educators with tilaka -- GuruSeva.
Anju Bhargava: Interfaith Seva: A Call To Serve In Kentucky Anju Bhargava 2011
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Thomas Kelly These young Sadhus have already established their own personal reasons for their basic tilaka, or marks on their foreheads and other body parts, to identify themselves as a Viashnava order.
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We can honor all the teachers and educators with tilaka -- GuruSeva.
Anju Bhargava: Interfaith Seva: A Call To Serve In Kentucky Anju Bhargava 2011
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Upon Ganesha's forehead there may be a third eye or the Shaivite sectarian mark Sanskrit: tilaka, which consists of three horizontal lines.
Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009
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Bhim Reddy, associate priest of the Subramaniya Swamy Temple in Richmond, B.C., with his painted tilaka.
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The tilaka symbolizes the third eye, or mind's eye, associated with many Hindu gods.
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Different Hindu traditions use different materials and shapes to make the tilaka.
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64 The Ganesha Purana prescribes a tilaka mark as well as a crescent moon on the forehead.
Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009
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China "… … ranju radha & tilaka - This is precisely the problem - one has to be either anti-Muslim and pro-Hindu or pro-Muslim and anti-Hindu.
Kafila 2009
goodkitten commented on the word tilaka
See first example-- Its the dot
August 9, 2012