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The Knot on the Right: What the Rigveda Wore
A Rigvedic hymn identifies an entire priestly family by their hairstyle. Follow the text's clothing words and you find a wool economy, a loom with pegs driven into the ground, exactly one needle, and the metaphor that eventually gave Sanskrit the words sutra and tantra.