IYENGAR WOMAN TILAK

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Iyengar Woman Tilak
IYENGAR WOMAN TILAK
Women of both Thenkalai and Vadakalai Iyengars of Sri Vaishnavism apply tilaka of ‘Srichurnam’ - red colour on the forehead with a white crescent at its bottom.

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