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  • Gudhi is a bamboo stick on which a festive cloth & copper kalasha/pot is kept.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Meera 2009

  • Gudhi is a bamboo stick on which a festive cloth & copper kalasha/pot is kept.

    Happy New Year!! Meera 2009

  • It seems that a gold kalasha is a pot bowl made out of gold that may hold sacred ingredients that are offered to a goddess or god during a ceremonial ritual.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Or are the sovereigns going to be spent to buy a gold kalasha?

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Or are the sovereigns intended to fill the kalasha that will be provided from another source in order to enable the temple to carry out the "education of the needy children" and be in the "forefront for many social causes?"

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • So, is this temple now collecting gold sovereigns in order to melt them down to create a kalasha?

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • The pouring of the rasa through the purifying sieve, pavitra, represents the refinement of the senses, the higher emotional and mental offering, kept ready in the subjective consciousness of the adhara chamasa or kalasha for the delectation ofIndra, Lord of the Divine Mind, who rejoices in the gift.

    Etymology of Indian word-roots Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • The _kalasha_ is said to represent the universe and to contain the principal gods and divine mothers, while the waters in it are the seven seas.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • Following this, the kalasha would then travel to Delhi from the City railway station.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • The kalasha will then be escorted to the Vidhana Soudha, where chief minister BS

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

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