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In Ethiopia, every woman belonging to the Beta Israel spent approximately a week — the length of her menstruation — in a special menstruating hut (ye-margam gogo/ye-dam gogo/ye-dam bet), where she was prohibited from coming into contact with people who were in a pure state.
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The Beta Israel of Ethiopia observed this tenet in strict fashion, precisely following the Torah commandment, isolating the woman in a hut of childbirth (yara gojos/ye-margam gogo) for forty days after the birth of a boy and eighty days after the birth of a girl.
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While the programme was charted to flow like a story, it also followed the logic of the margam loosely from the early invocation to the tillana.
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The margam -- the traditional format for a Bharatanatyam recital -- was intertwined with fine elucidations by P.C. Ramakrishna.
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She decided to link these fond memories with the hoary margam (Bharatanatyam repertoire) and created 'Chennai'.
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