The festival is dedicated to Durga, the mother goddess who also represents power. |
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During Navaratri, some devotees of Durga observe a fast and prayers are offered for the protection of health and property. |
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The gaiety surrounding Durga Puja has universal appeal with people from every community participating in the festivities. |
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The legend goes that Karni Mata, a mystic matriarch from the 14th century, was an incarnation of Durga, the goddess of power and victory. |
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Ever since, the victory over the asura is celebrated with customary obeisance to the Goddess Durga. |
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In late eighteenth and nineteenth century Bengal, the worship of Durga acquired meanings other than devotion as well. |
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The son of a prosperous Hindu trader, Bhai Pheru, Guru Angad was an ardent devotee of the Hindu goddess Durga. |
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All preparations of the pooja are ready with the deity of goddess Durga decorated. |
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The goddess cults eventually centred around Durga, the consort of Shiva, in her fiercer aspect. |
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The Bengalis settled in the city are on with the Durga pooja festivities. |
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On Dussehra, ornate representations of Durga riding on a lion are brought to local rivers, blessed and set afloat. |
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These Pandals are temporary temples erected for the occasion of the Durga Puja religious festival being celebrated this week. |
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Traditionally, a Durga Puja idol is taken to the water at the end of the 10-day holiday, submersed in water and allowed to float away. |
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I prayed to Surya, the Sun God, and to Durga Mata, the Holy Mother. |
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Their sinewy branches twist toward the sky like the many arms of the Indian goddess Durga. |
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The army claimed to have killed 525 of the rebels, including two fierce women commanders, Vidusha and Durga. |
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Durga Ahlund is a professional certified Yoga teacher, and practitioner of Yoga for more than 35 years. |
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He comes from the Ashram of the Mother Durga, and initiates coming from the Ashram of Durga work with Mother energy only. |
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That is why there is the need to worship and to meditate the lady mounting on the lion, Durga. |
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In 2006, he attended the Hatha Yoga Teacher training intensive led by Durga Ahlund, and teaches hatha yoga weekly. |
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Touched by his faith, the goddess Durga appeared and blessed him with the power to win over the evil forces he was about to battle. |
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Durga Lal Acharya is the coordinator of RESPECT Nepal and is currently working in the Bhutanese Refugee Camps in eastern Nepal. |
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Have you not noticed how during Durga Puja a lamp is kept constantly burning near the image? |
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Most Hindus revere and adore the many manifestations of the Divine as Siva, Vishnu, Rama, Krishna or Durga even as they focus on an ishta devata, a favorite Deity. |
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The Mother Goddess is worshipped as Durga, but also assumes the form of local ammans, or goddesses, such as Mariamman, who protects against disease. |
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Therefore forms of Durga are worshipped with their respective yantras. |
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The museum is exhibiting Ganesh, the remover of obstacles, Mother Durga the supreme goddess and Saraswati the goddess of learning. |
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Armed with their creative thoughts, they not just experimented with the marquees but also changed the typical stylisation of goddess Durga. |
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Religion works in India because we make it so much fun, whether it be the worship of Ganapati Bappa Moriya in the west or Ma Durga in the east. |
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That is what is worshipped as Durga or Lalitha in India. |
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A murti, or representation, of the goddess Durga shown during the Durga Puja festival. |
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The Tildiha village temple in Bihar state had been packed with some 20,000 people offering prayers to the goddess Durga today, the last day of the Hindu festival Navratri. |
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As her schoolteachers drone on, Durga dozes off. |
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The Mother of Will is called Durga in Indian terminology. |
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The first Nano was scheduled to go on sale as early as October, around the time of the Durga Puja, a festival devoted to a fierce goddess who carries a trident, a sword and other weapons in her many hands. |
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Next to one car engine is a shrine to Durga, a many-armed goddess. |
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Goddesses such as Kali, Durga, and Chandi who incarnate, in the Puranic traditions, shakti were transposed upon the woman in the spiritual sphere. |
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It is believed that during the Navratri, Goddess Durga descends on earth to rid it of the demons and blesses her devotees with happiness and prosperity. |
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His crisp white kurta and dhoti and the trademark Gandhi cap and glasses has become sought after dress material in the city, and fashion statement for the coming Durga Puja. |
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Like shiro, the Indian forts, durga or durg in Sanskrit, shared features with castles in Europe such as acting as a domicile for a lord as well as being fortifications. |
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