sImaMtaH [ sImnoM'taH SakaM° ] 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; sImaMte ca tvadupagamajaM yatra nIpaM vaDUnAM Me. 65 ; Śi. 8. 69 ; Mv. 5. 44. 3 A land-mark. Comp. — unnayanaM ‘parting of the hair’, one of the twelve Saṃskāras or purificatory rites observed by women in the fourth, sixth, or eighth month of their pregnancy.