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Powder, flowers and a welcome.
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Yes. Two trees of light.
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Homecoming LampsA city lights every doorstep for three travellers.
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A welcome on the floor.
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A lamp from a wheel.
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Mahavira's nirvana night.
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Lakshmi likes a clean house.
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A new start.
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Boxes of mithai for the neighbours.
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The messenger who ran ahead.
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Eight kinds of good fortune.
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Two swords: Miri and Piri, and the fifty-two kings freed.
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The night Lakshmi visits.
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The whole story in one night.
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Why Jains light lamps on Diwali night.
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Bringing the lamp in.
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New clothes, new year, new start.
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Diwali means a full house.
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And how to tell them.
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Bestu Varas.
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