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Kojagiri (Lachhmi Puja): harvest festival marking the end of monsoon season; Paata Puja (Durga Maay Aagmon) Khutti Puja (Ritual of Durga Puja) Mohalaya; Durga Puja: a ten-day festival, [20] [21] of which the last five are of the most significance. [22] is an important festival in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism.
The word puja is roughly translated into English as 'reverence, honour, homage, adoration, or worship'. [3] Puja (পুজো / পুজা in bangla), the loving offering of light, flowers, and water or food to the divine, is the essential ritual of Hinduism. For the worshipper, the divine is visible in the image, and the divinity sees the ...
Durga Puja is also referred to by the names of related Shakta Hindu festivals such as Navaratri, celebrated on the same days elsewhere in India; [9] such as in Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, and Maharashtra, [B] Kullu Dussehra, celebrated in Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh; [C] Mysore Dussehra celebrated in ...
It comprises the performance of all-night vigils, [2] as well as puja, songs, and dances for the veneration of a deity. A jagarana is generally performed for the veneration of Hindu goddesses and major deities such as Shiva on Maha Shivaratri and Durga during Navaratri , [ 3 ] as well as various folk deities like Khandoba [ 4 ] and Devnarayan ...
The ingredients of panchamrita: (clockwise from bottom right) milk, curd, sugar (or jaggery), honey and ghee. Panchamrita (Sanskrit: पञ्चामृत, lit. ' five Amṛta s ') is a mixture of five foods used in Hindu as well as Jain worship and puja and Abhiṣeka [1] It is often used as an offering during pooja post which it is distributed as prasad.
Judeo-Marathi (Marathi: जुदाव मराठी) is a variety of Marathi spoken by the Bene Israel, a Jewish ethnic group in Maharashtra. There is no evidence that Judeo-Marathi substantially differed from other forms of Marathi. [1] However, there are several manuscripts of Jewish texts written in Marathi using Devanagari or
Mantrapushpanjali (Sanskrit, Devanagari मंत्रपुष्पांजलि, IAST mantrapuṣpāñjali, IPA [mɐn̪t̪rɐpuɕpɑːɲd͡ʒɐli]) is a popular ...
Shashtipurti (Sanskrit: षष्ठीपूर्ति, romanized: Ṣaṣṭipūrti) or Shashtiabdapurti (Sanskrit: षष्ट्यब्दपूर्ति ...