Dust Protocol: Ashram Floor-Sweeping as Temporal Governance in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram District

尘仪：泰米尔纳德邦拉马纳塔普拉姆地区修道院扫地仪式作为时间治理术

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In Ramanathapuram’s 18th-century Vaishnava ashrams, floor sweeping isn’t hygiene—it’s temporal calibration, performed with neem-broom bristles cut only during waning moon phases.
Each sweep pattern encodes agricultural cycles, monsoon forecasts, and debt repayment deadlines, transforming dust motes into moving calendars visible only to trained eyes.

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