| The idea in puja or prayer is to praise the deity, along with Namaskar, so that the deity becomes happy and grants what the prayer wants. |
| His greeting comes in the form of a namaskar, a gracious supplicant bow, and his speech is pitched just above a gentle whisper. |
| The mahout bowed to the Goddess, hands arched in the gesture of namaskar, then began circling the shrine followed by the cymbal-clashers and the trumpet blowers. |
| Tamils use the typical Hindu namaskar, the joining of the palms of the hands in front of the body, to say hello as well as good-bye. |
