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Soup made with kwati is traditionally eaten during a festival involving the exchange of these objects among men after bathing at dawn. Those objects later grant sage passage through the Vaitarani to cows on Gai Tihar. The RSS has re-interpreted a festival involving these objects by attaching them to the pole of a saffron flag. The Brahma-granthi unites three components of these objects which represent three (*) debts, or mind, word, and deed. The three components to some of these objects, whose use supplanted that of a dupatta, represent the Tridevī. Men become dvija after reciting the Gāyatrī Mantra and receiving these objects in the upanayanam (10[1])ceremony. (10[2])The protection symbolized by these objects is central to a holiday in which Hindu wives return to their ancestral homes. For 10 points each, name these objects that sisters tie around their brothers’ wrists (10[1])to celebrate Raksha Bandhan. ■END■

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