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  2. Typha - Wikipedia

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    Typha / ˈ t aɪ f ə / is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush [4] or (mainly historically) reedmace, [5] in American English as cattail, [6] or punks, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as raupō, bullrush, [7 ...

  3. Chitrakathi - Wikipedia

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    It’s an almost extinct art form practiced by the Thakar tribal community of Maharashtra. Chitrakathi artists are a community of migrating story tellers found all over Maharashra and some parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. They made a series of single sheets of paintings. All paintings belonging to one story were kept in a bundle called pothi.

  4. Kiradu temples - Wikipedia

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    The Kiradu temples are a group of ruined Hindu temples located in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, India. Kiradu town is located in the Thar desert, about 35 km from Barmer and 157 km from Jaisalmer. The ruins of at least five temples exist at Kiradu. Of these, the Someshvara temple, dedicated to Shiva, is the best

  5. Katas Raj Temples - Wikipedia

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    The temples derive their holiness from the legend that following the death of his wife Sati, the Hindu god Shiva wandered inconsolably, while some of his tears collected in two ponds, one of which is the pond around which the Katas Raj Temples are set, [4] [3] while the other is at Pushkar, near the famous Sufi pilgrimage center of Ajmer.

  6. Hidimba Devi Temple - Wikipedia

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    Hidimba Devi Temple, locally known as Dhungari Temple, [1] also known variously as the Hadimba Temple, is a Hindu Temple, located in Manāli, a hill station in the State of Himāchal Pradesh in north India. It is an ancient cave temple dedicated to Hidimbi Devi, wife of Bhima, a figure in the Indian epic Mahābhārata.

  7. Yaganti temple - Wikipedia

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    This temple was constructed by King Harihara Bukka Raya of the Sangama Dynasty of the Vijayanagara Empire in the 15th century. [citation needed] It was built according to Vaishnavaite traditions. One story of the site's origin is as follows: The sage Agastya wanted to build a temple for Lord Venkateswara on this site. However, the statue that ...

  8. Kedareshvara Temple, Balligavi - Wikipedia

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    The temple is connected with the legend of demon Bali according to some lithic records. [1] In its heyday, the temple attracted a large number of followers of the Kalamukha sect of Shaivism . A four faced image of the god Brahma , which at one time may have been inside the temple, is on display in a museum within the temple complex.

  9. Durgai Amman Temple, Patteeswaram - Wikipedia

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    Meenakshi was the Ista devata to Pandya dynasty while Durga to Chola dynasty. Mangayarkkarasiyar and Kundavai Pirāttiyār was very fond of her and worshipped her. [2] Goddess Durga was the family deity of Rajaraja I and other Chola kings and they used to worship her and pray fervently to her before fighting a war.