Navratri is a festival of worship which celebrated over a period of nine nights. The devotees of Maa Durga perform the ‘Devi-Sthaapna’ in their homes wherein they invite the Goddess and perform ‘pooja-path’ for nine days. This festival is devoted solely to the Mother Goddess — known variously as Durga, Bhavani, Amba, Chandika, Gauri, Parvati, [...]
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Navratri, Navratri 2009, Durga Pooja, Navratri Festival India
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Ramayana – A Hindu Epic
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RAMAYANA One of the great Epic poems of the Hindus, the other being the Mahabharata. It is perhaps impossible to fix the exact period at which either of them was composed; though it is evident from internal evidence that both are productions of a postvedic age. The Ramayana was the more ancient of the two [...]
Lord Buddha Famous Sculptures
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Lord Buddha, the founder of the Buddhist religion is called Buddha Shakyamuni. Shakya is the name of the royal family into which he was born, and Muni means Able One. Buddha Skakyamuni was born as a royal prince in 624 BC in a place called Lumbini in northern India to Queen Mayadevi and King Shuddhodana. [...]