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which may be translated as follows:
No.
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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THE TATTOO MARKS.
I will now proceed to discuss a series of marks actually taken down off people. Many are repeated indeed, the actual number of designs is not really large, but the variation in the forms is considerable, and I will therefore give the whole collection as it stands. It has not been everywhere possible to give an English equivalent.
"An intelligent woman executed (some) ornaments, which a decent one put on her person. (They are such) ornaments as cannot be put off, but which will accompany the soul (to the other world).
I know of no case of tattooing idols or cattle.
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I.
THE BUNDELKHAND OR EASTERN SECTION. (Collected by Rai Saheb Kashi Prasad.)
Designs or marks.
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Names of designs.
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पुरेनका फूल...
चलनी
जवा...
fantat
हिना
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[SEPTEMBER, 1904.
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मधानीका फूल
English names.
Machhi (? fish).
Puren kā phul (the lotus-flower).
Chalni (sieve).
Java (Hibiscus sinensis).
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Ghinochi (chatty-stand).
Hinna (deer).
Mathānī kā phul (name given to the bottom of a churning rod).
