[sīmnoṃ'taḥ śakaṃº] 1 A boundary-line, land-mark.

2 The parting line of the hair, the hair parted on each side of the head so as to leave a line; sīmaṃte ca tvadupagamajaṃ yatra nīpaṃ vadhūnāṃ Me. 65; Śi. 8. 69; Mv. 5. 44.

3 A land-mark. Comp. unnayanaṃ ‘parting of the hair’, one of the twelve Saṃskāras or puri- ficatory rites observed by women in the fourth, sixth, or eighth month of their pregnancy.