| The youngest female member of the household leads the puja by applying a red tilak to all the other members of the family before everyone joins together in worship. |
| It is a very different influence from that of Mr. tilak, to whom he is sometimes, but quite wrongly, compared. |
| He wore a checkered shirt and a sarong, and had smeared his forehead with tilak. |
| Besides purification, the tilak also offers the wearer protection from ghosts, evil influences, bad dreams, accidents and many other things. |
| When he emerged a few minutes later, he had a tilak on his forehead and some prasad in his right hand. |
| The taxi driver has an orange tilak on his forehead and a host of miniature gods swinging from the roof of his vehicle. |
