Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fascinating, Jayanand. It was a good shot of the man, and I suppose wearing that easily snapped thread indicating his priestly caste is also an age old barrier to physical work too? Douglas On 02/04/2018 11:45, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > Don, Jim, Robert, Philippe, Alan, Bharani > > Thanks for looking. > > Actually what the person is reading is interesting. It is a magazine on > traditional Hindu religious philosophy published locally, not in Sanskrit > or Tamil, but in English! > > To decode the image a little further, the thread over his left shoulder > (actually should be nine threads knotted together) indicates that he > belongs to the Brahmin caste, and the vertical lines of ash on his > forehead, which signifies a trident, means that he is a worshiper of > Vishnu, one of the supreme trinity of gods in the Hindu pantheon, > collectively known as Trimurthi. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:46 AM, scleroplex via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > >> Wonderfully timeless. >> Bharani >> >> Message: 12 >> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 21:31:58 +0530 >> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>, PSM >> <psm-1857 at googlegroups.com> >> Subject: [Leica] Mylapore >> Message-ID: >> <CAH1UNJ1raZdJNmxwXevBHwmbnUDLrON6PRdeJc6yyAkmqnTVbw at mail. >> gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >