The meaning of SACRED THREAD is a cotton thread with which a Hindu youth of the three twice-born castes and some Sudras is invested at the ceremony of initiation (as at the age of from eight to twelve) and which is worn constantly thereafter from the lef
2024 Along tidy village roads, Muslim women cloaked in body-length black niqabs walk past Hindu priests resting under sacred fig trees. Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023 Buddha received his enlightenment under the bodhi tree, or sacred fig. Mary Ekstrand, The Christian Science Monitor...