[Leica] Mylapore

[Douglas Barry]

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
>>
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