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Little girls worshipped as deity Maha Gauri

HARIDWAR: On the eighth Navratra,little girls were worshipped as deity Maha Gauri by women devotees and offered holy food and prasad at households and even in temples.

Little girls worshipped as deity Maha Gauri

LITTLE ANGELS: Girls being worshipped and offered prasad in Haridwar on Friday.
Tribune photo: RAMESHWAR GAUR



Tribune News Service

Haridwar, March 27

On the eighth Navratra,little girls were worshipped as deity Maha Gauri by women devotees and offered holy food and prasad at households and even in temples.

From the wee hours of the morning devotees took a holy Ganga dip, visited temples to pay obeisance to the eighth deity of Maha Gauri. Women washed feet of these girls, as they are considered young form of deity and later prasad like halwa, puri and dal was offered to young girls.

After this, devotees also broke their fast by having the same cooked prasad. Many devotees will break their Navratra festive fast tomorrow by doing the same ritual on pious the occasion of Navami, which is also celebrated as Ram Navami, the birth of Lord Rama.

At revered shrines of Mata Mansa Devi, Mata Chandi Devi, Maya Devi, Mata Vaishno Devi, Shri Daksheshwar Maha Dev Kankhal, Sati Kund Kankhal, Mata Sheetla Devi, Maa Shakumbari Devi, Rishikul, Hanuman Temple, Tibdi bypass, BHEL Sector-1 Shiv Mandir and other temples in Sapt Sarovar, Bhoopatwala, Har-ki-Pauri , Jwalapur, Vivek Vihar, Gobindpuri, Shiv Lok, Subash Nagar, Shivalik Nagar and other parts of the city, devotees thronged the shrines to pay obeisance.

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