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  2. Arti (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Arti plate. Arti (Hindi: आरती, romanized: Āratī) or Aarati (Sanskrit: आरात्रिक, romanized: Ārātrika) [1] [2] is a Hindu ritual employed in worship, part of a puja, in which light from a flame (fuelled by camphor, ghee, or oil) is ritually waved to venerate deities.

  3. Shakta pithas - Wikipedia

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    The Brahmanda Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas mentions 64 Shakta pithas of the goddess Parvati in the Bharat or Greater India including present-day India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, some parts of Southern Tibet in China and parts of southern Pakistan.

  4. Three and a half Shakti Peethas - Wikipedia

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    According to these writings, a Shakti Peetha is a place associated with Shakti, the Goddess of power. This is the place where maa Sati's 3 eyes fell. The Kolhapur Shakti Peetha is of special religious significance being one of the six places where it is believed that one can either obtain salvation from desires or have them fulfilled.

  5. Shakti - Wikipedia

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    According to the Monier-Williams dictionary, the term Shakti (Śakti) is the sanskrit feminine word-meaning "energy, ability, strength, effort, power, might, capability"—thereby implying "capacity for" doing something, or "power over" anything. [1] [8] Shakti is also considered feminine noun of linguistic term Sanskrit. [9]

  6. Maa Aarki - Wikipedia

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    Maa Shakti (previously known as Aarki) is the name of the world record garba, which has been organized every year by Mr. Jayesh Thakkar and his NGO Samvedan Charitable Trust which runs the garba festival in the city of Vadodara.

  7. Seventh chord - Wikipedia

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    The most common chords are tertian, constructed using a sequence of major thirds (spanning 4 semitones) and/or minor thirds (3 semitones). Since there are 3 third intervals in a seventh chord (4 notes) and each can be major or minor, there are 7 possible permutations (the 8th one, consisted of four major thirds, results in a non-seventh augmented chord, since a major third equally divides the ...

  8. Mahadevi - Wikipedia

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    Ultimately, Adi Shakti herself is the energy which exists even after the destruction of the universe and before its creation. [ 8 ] According to the Tripura Rahasya , only Mahadevi was existed in her form of Tripura Sundari before the beginning of the universe.

  9. Ashapura Mata - Wikipedia

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    In Ghumli, in the Barda hills, Gujarat, this is when Maa Shakti kills a demon on request of a Sati and she request Maa too reside on the hills and named her Maa Ashapura. This is the First temple of Mataji. Maa Ashapura is still heard and also hears Maa's lion's roar. Ashapura Mataji's temple is in the Gadhkada village in Amreli district.