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The Significance of a Mangalsutra.... The groom ties the auspicious thread around the bride's neck on the day of their holy nuptial as significance that their relationship would be as auspicious as the thread. ... It is believed that the black beads of a mangalsutra are blessed with divine powers to protect the married couple
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Guttapusalu. The Gutta Pusalu is a classic necklace design from Andhra Pradesh , and is a piece of heritage jewellery . Pusalu means "beads" and gutta is "a shoal of small fish" , the necklace is so named because it is fringed with bunches of small pearls very similar to "a shoal of small fish" (gutta) .
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The term Mangalsutra is the union of two Sanskrit words Mangala (meaning holy) and Sutra (meaning thread). Due to its strong significance in the Hindu culture, the Mangalsutra is not considered as an ornate piece of jewellery but in fact a sacred thread of love and goodwill worn by the married Indian woman.