(India) The long lock of hair left on the shaved head of an orthodox Hindu, especially a Brahmin or temple priest.
2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 3:
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