Nana! Nana! We are celebrating mythology month this March! Ain’t it fun? It sure is. Today I have an even bigger surprise. I am going…
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Oh Brother!
It isn’t just the fact that Donald Trump wished Happy Diwali to Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists but ignored the Hindus in his Diwali greetings. Nor…
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Nina & Nana in Alive & Divine
As a practicing Indian Hindu, I am used to many schools of theologies and beliefs but the story of a Nepali custom I had heard many years back from a fellow student of Nepali origin had me intrigued. According to a still practicing custom in Nepal, a girl child of not more than 5 years old is selected as an embodiment of Goddess Divine and is worshipped as Kumari, the virgin goddess.
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Nina & Nana across the yugas
Dharma was famously compared to a cow to illustrate this – Puranic sources say that the dharmic cow which started with 4 legs in the first Yuga keeps losing a leg in each Yuga until its left standing on a single leg in Kali Yuga.
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