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Kwati soup is traditionally eaten during one festival which involves men exchanging these objects 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 of some of these objects, whose use supplanted that of a dupatta, represent the Tridevī. The protection symbolized by these objects (-5[1])is central to a holiday in which Hindu wives return to their ancestral homes. Men become dvija after reciting the Gāyatrī Mantra and receiving these objects in the upanayanam ceremony. For 10 points, name these objects that sisters tie (-5[1])around (10[1])their brothers’ wrists during Raksha Bandhan. (10[2])■END■

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