Sixteen Female Adornments

Sixteen Female Adornments, in Indian tradition called Solah Sringar, are:

1. Rubbing and cleansing the body with fragrant unguents
2. Ablution
3. Putting on a new attire
4. Dyeing the sides of one's feet with red lag
5. Dressing the hair
6. Adorning the parting line of the hair with red lead
7. Painting the forehead with streaks of sandal-paste
8. Dotting the chin with a small black spot
9. Colouring the palms of one's hands and the soles of one's feet with the reddish dye extracted from the leaves of the Mehandi plant
10. Anointing one's body with perfumed unguents
11. Adorning the body with bejeweled ornaments
12. Beautifying the hair etc with wreaths of flowers
13. Perfuming and dyeing one's mouth by chewing betel-leaves etc
14. Colouring the teeth
15. Painting the lips, and
16. Applying collyrium to one's eyes

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