Friday, August 1, 2014

Jewellery or Nugh as it is called by the Thanjavur Marathis

In Thanjavur Marathi, Jewellery is called 'nugh'.नघ  Long back , probably more when our ancestors settled in deep South,  all the women among our ancestors dressed beautifully in " reshamacha nau gajach lugda"रेश्मीची  नौ  गजाच लुगडा   and adorned themselves with a " bichhoda" बिच्चोडा in the center of which was a " rakhudi" राखुडी of rubies or a " phirivach phula".फिरीवाच फुला

Or sometimes the younger women wore a 'veni' वेणी  which was adorned with " venicha nugh" वेणीचा नघ  all along. Not to forget, sometimes this veni was achieved with a " gangavan". गंगावन

At the end of this veni was a bunch of 'gonde' गोंडे  sometimes even made of gold! 

On the nose was a " mukhra" ,मुखरा  a " nath"नथ  or a " bulaak". बुलाक . The ears had a " vajrach thod" वज्राच थोड or a " mothach thod".मोतेच थोड 

The forehead had a  tikamani. टीकामनी 

On the neck,( galanth) was a mothach mala, मोतेच माळा  garsoli, गरसोळी  sometimes kasech maal कासेच  माळा ; hands were adorned with sonyach kaankan सोनाचा  कांकण or mothach kaankan मोतेच कांकण 
On the arm was a bajubandh बाजूबंध or even nagbandh.   नागबंध

The fingers were adorned with 'mudhi ' मूधी  and sometimes 'vanki mudhi '. वंकी  मुधी

On the waist was a sonyach patta सोनाच पट्टा . The feet, not to be outdone had a pair of tinkling ' painjan' पैंजण and the toes had 'jodvi' जोडवी 

That completed the picture of a bejewelled Thanjavur Marathi woman of yonder days!

To those who recognize all the above jewellery, this probably is taking you back many years. But those who have no idea what I am talking about, well, this must be Greek and Latin.

Like what is " gangavan"? Where did  Ganga come in all this!!?

Interestingly, that is the very purpose of my blog.. to rekindle our language!And you can be sure I will be posting the details of all this jewellery with pictures where possible.

Until then...



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