The oldest city's oldest lamp.
From the original text · Art and music histories
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The oldest city's oldest lamp.
From the original text · Art and music histories

A mango that only rises when everyone tells the truth.
From the original text · Mahabharata
The river makes way for Vasudeva's basket.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Lunch in the forest, shared from every hand.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A great bridge to reach those who need help, and one small squirrel.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
Small as a cat, in the night.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A river that fell from the sky and was caught in gentle hair.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A door, a father, a new head, told gently.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
The fruit of wisdom and a boy who walked away to Palani.
From the original text · Skanda Purana
Seeing in the dark, in Bengal.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Writing in rice on Vijayadashami.
From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana
A moon-bell on her forehead.
From the original text · Devi Mahatmya (Durga Saptashati)

A turtle who held up a mountain so the churning could go on.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Why a bell is rung during puja.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Greetings differ by family and tradition; none is the only one.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Clean hands, quiet mind.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
A dot that is older than fashion.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Naivedya at home.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Lakshmi likes a clean house.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
The baraat.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
The whisper, the star, the choosing.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Saying it again and again.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
No. A gentle correction of a common mistake.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri, Godavari.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
The plate that goes to the shrine.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Odisha's scroll painters.
From the original text · Art and music histories
Bengal's rice-paste patterns.
From the original text · Art and music histories
The sound in the kitchen.
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Tribhangi.
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Paper, bamboo and manjha.
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Fourteen towers of a thousand colours.
From the original text · Art and music histories
A student's errand for his teacher's wife turns into the longest, strangest journey.
From the original text · Mahabharata
Two brothers, one blue and one fair.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Evening in Vrindavan.
From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana
Every house, every garden.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
On his shoulders into Lanka.
From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana
Why the biggest god rides the smallest friend.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
A mountain's daughter and a very long tapasya.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Why the door is open and the lamp is lit.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
Books at her feet for a day.
From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana
A smile that made the sun.
From the original text · Devi Mahatmya (Durga Saptashati)
Smoke that rises, a room that changes.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Seeing, and being seen.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Six yards, a hundred ways.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
The laddu on the shrine.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
A new start.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
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