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... held on the full moon of the month Chaitra, or about the beginning of April, but it is now celebrated on the full moon of Phalguna, or about the beginning of March. The other great Hindu festival, held in the autumn, about October, is called Durga-puja, being in honour of the goddess Durga. The Holi festival is now so disfigured by unseemly practices and coarse jests that it is reprobated by the respectable natives, and will probably, in the course of time, either die out or be prohibited by ...

— Sakoontala or The Lost Ring - An Indian Drama • Kalidasa

... statue of Durga; before the idol an altar. In the background a landscape with farms and ...

— The Buddha - A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes • Paul Carus

... goddess Gunga, you see that the Hindoos worship goddesses as well as gods. There is another goddess much worshipped the wife of the god Siva. She has appeared in a thousand forms, with a thousand different names. Of all these thousand forms, Durga and Karle are the most regarded by the people. I will speak of Durga first. Of all the festivals in Eastern India, hers is the most celebrated. She has ten hands, in which she holds an iron club, a trident, a battle-axe, ...

— Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. • Dr. John Scudder

... drink water, because the provisions in his stomach may not agree with the microbes. Yet India invented Thuggery and the Suttee. India is a hard country to understand. We went to the temple of the Thug goddess, Bhowanee, or Kali, or Durga. She has these names and others. She is the only god to whom living sacrifices are made. Goats are sacrificed to her. Monkeys would be cheaper. There are plenty of them about the place. Being sacred, they make ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

Words linked to "Durga" : Hindu deity