10 HINDI BOOKS RELATING TO «शीतलाषष्ठी»
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शीतलाषष्ठी in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Hindu and Muhammadan Festivals - Page 19
SITALA SHASHTHI. 19 nor indeed are the celebrations, which probably once occurred at this season, very particularly observed. The day is retained in the calendars, and constitutes a nominal fixed point, from which festivals, which become ...
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From ogress to goddess Hariti: a Buddhist deity - Page 38
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Madhurika K. Maheshwari, 2009
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The Book of Devi - Page 155
The following folk tale is recited during the auspicious day of Shitala shashti in spring when women fast and abstain from bathing in hot water or even cooking food. There lived a wealthy old man who had seven sons. But though they had been ...
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 9 - Page 452
H. H. Wilson, 43 Sitala Shashthi, Hindu Religious Festival, 82 Sivaratri, Ditto, 91 Sri Panchami, Ditto, 79 Suhuf i Ibrahim, Biography of Poets, 158 Sykes, Col., on a Catalogue of Chinese Buddhistical works, 199 Tahir of Nasrabad, Biography of ...
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1848
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Works: ¬Vol. ¬2 : Essays and lectures chiefly on the ...
Sitala Shashthi. — Sixth lunar day of the light half of Mdgha (3rd of February). — This ceremony is of a strictly private character, and is limited to married women who have children. The object is, in the present day, especially to protect them ...
Horace H. Wilson, Reinhold Rost, 1862
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Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: In ...
In Bengal women observe Shitla Shashthi or Magh Sud 6, and worship the Goddess Mahashashthi, a form of Goddess Durga, who protect children. There is a mantra in Yogini Tantra, a book of tantriks, in praise of Goddess Durga, "Oh, ...
S. C. Bhatt, Gopal K. Bhargava, 2006
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Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: In ...
... it is believed that Goddess Shitla who reside in the hearth on that day would be burnt by fire. In Bengal women observe Shitla Shashthi or Magh Sud 6, and worship the Goddess Mahashashthi, a form of Goddess Durga, who protect children.
Shankarlal C. Bhatt, 2006
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Census of India, 1961: Gujarat - Page 94
In Bengal women observe Shitla Shashthi on Magh Sud 6, and worship the goddess Mahashashthi, a form of goddess Durga, whp protects children. There is a mantra in Togini Tantra, a book of tantriks, in praise of goddess Durga, "Oh ...
India. Office of the Registrar General, 1965
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The Force of Vision: New visions of creation, feminist ... - Page 102
Banadurga, Sulachani, Shitala, Shashthi) and the performance of religious rituals. Chandrabati even uses bratakatha-style formulaic language when describing Sata's ritualistic performances. Lastly, Chandrabati Ramayana is crying out as a ...
International Comparative Literature Association. Congress, 1995
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Historical Studies in the Cult of the Goddess Manasā: A ... - Page 74
On the other hand Ray1-' further adds that the Mangaikavyas and other evidence indicate that many of the deities of non-Aryan origin such as Manasa, Ban-Durga, Sitala, ShashthI, different types of Chandi, Sasan-kali, and Janguli were ...
Pradyot Kumar Maity, 1966
