Different forms of braid

Narayan Prasad

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Jun 25, 2026, 9:03:06 PMJun 25

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Dear scholars,

Namaste.

How do the different forms of braid (वेणी, धम्मिल्ल, कुन्तल, कवरी) differ from one another?

What is the meaning of वालाः?

Ref: हलायुधकोश, सं॰ जयशंकर जोशी, श्लोक 2.1.530

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Narayan Prasad

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Prakash Raj Pandey

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Jun 26, 2026, 11:40:14 PMJun 26

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In Hindi बाल means hair, and this shows it came from वालः of Sanskrit.

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Vinutha Saligram

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Jun 26, 2026, 11:40:15 PMJun 26

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Namaste,

वालाः refers to hair or lock of hair.

The meanings are given in the dictionary part of this हलायुधकोश book with reference to verses.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.448250/page/n611/mode/2up

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Vinutha Saligram.

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Narayan Prasad

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Jun 28, 2026, 1:50:44 AMJun 28

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Thank you sir for your reply.

That time I had not checked the meanings of individual words in the हलायुधकोश itself.