Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s2.t1.102

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c7.s2.t1.102

⁵ Compare a description of the dress of Nanak-panthis in the South during the last century. They used to put coloured strings (seli) round their necks, a spot of lamp black in the centre of their foreheads; smeare their faces with sandal-wood paste; carried small Qur’ans as an amulet; and wore necklaces of conch-shell. Vide Crooke’s ‘Herklot’s Islam,’ 179. For the various combinations of dresses worn by Guru Nanak, compare Macauliffe, I, 58, 135, 174, 163.

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