Hinduism - What Is Janeu?


All “twiceborn” (dvija) males wear this holy thread as a visible indication of having completed the teenage religious initiation known as “second birth.” 

The janeu is a three-stranded circular string that is worn over the left shoulder and crosses the body to fall on the right hip.

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