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[ Meaning Kali of the cemetery (Smashana); another form of Durga.]
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[ Not being able to find victims, this pleasant deity, to satisfy her thirst for the curious juice, cut her own throat that the blood might spout up into her mouth. She once found herself dancing on her husband, and was so shocked that in surprise she put out her tongue to a great length, and remained motionless. She is often represented in this form.]
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[ This ashtanga, the most ceremonious of the five forms of Hindu salutation, consists of prostrating and of making the eight parts of the body—namely, the temples, nose and chin, knees and hands—touch the ground.]
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[ “Sidhis,” the personified Powers of Nature. At least, so we explain them: but people do not worship abstract powers.]
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[ The residence of Indra, king of heaven, built by Wishwa-Karma, the architect of the gods.]