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## Translation:
**Somasen Bhattaraka's Composition**
**77.** The pillar-shaped and umbrella-shaped tilak are auspicious for Brahmanas. The pillar-shaped and umbrella-shaped tilak are pleasurable for Vaishyas. The circular tilak is auspicious for Shudras, and the trident-shaped tilak is auspicious for others.
**76. 77.** Kshatriyas wear two types of tilak: crescent-shaped and umbrella-shaped. Brahmanas wear three types of tilak: pillar-shaped, throne-shaped, and umbrella-shaped. Vaishyas wear two types of tilak: pillar-shaped and umbrella-shaped. Shudras wear circular tilak, and others wear trident-shaped tilak.
**78.** The tilak for women of Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas is a crescent-shaped and umbrella-shaped tilak with four horizontal lines.
**79.** The tilak for women of all Shudras is pillar-shaped, throne-shaped, and trident-shaped. Men and women of all three varnas should wear tilak made of sandalwood, saffron, or other fragrant substances.
**80.** Shudras should wear tilak made of neem wood, clay, or white ash. All women should wear tilak made of vermillion or turmeric.
**Akshata Dharana**
**81.** Those who are devoted to the mountains should place Akshata (rice grains) on their forehead, in the middle, above the fragrant paste, in the space of a fingertip, in remembrance of the feet of the Jinas.
**The Glory of Fragrant Paste**
**82.** Even if one is a Brahma-slayer, a cow-slayer, a thief, or a perpetrator of all sins, by touching the fragrance of the feet of the Jinas, one becomes free from all sins at that very moment.