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The people you love are your world.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

We light the way home for people we love.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

On the very last step of the very last journey, he would not go in without his friend.

From the original text · Mahabharata

A poor friend, a torn cloth, and a palace that opened.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

On the mountain Mahendra, before the leap.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

When he could not find the herb, he brought the whole hill.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Parvati makes a boy from turmeric paste.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

The halahala, the blue throat, the world saved.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

The churning, and a goddess on a lotus.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

The first music.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

What light means, and why families light a lamp at dusk.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The divine in me bows to the divine in you.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A mark between the eyebrows, and what it protects.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Lamps for a homecoming.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The master book: three days, a hundred cousins.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Doing what is right for who you are; not a one-word translation.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Gau mata.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Maya is halfway through a block tower when Dadi calls: aarti time.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Painting from the walls of Mithila.

From the original text · Art and music histories

Powder, flowers and a welcome.

From the original text · Art and music histories

How a plant becomes a pattern.

From the original text · Art and music histories

Hands that speak.

From the original text · Art and music histories

A ladder of notes and a time of day.

From the original text · Art and music histories

Ten days from mud to river.

From the original text · Art and music histories

The garbhagriha and the shikhara.

From the original text · Art and music histories

A prison, a storm, a basket across the Yamuna.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Learning sixty-four arts in sixty-four days.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Do your work; do not cling to the fruit.

From the original text · Bhagavad Gita

Curiosity is good; listen when someone who loves you calls.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Mainaka, Surasa and Simhika on the way.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Even Shiva holds out a bowl.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

Leaving the road outside.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The naming day.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Colours, sticks and laughter.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

Was it a mango?

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A small boy, a big king, three steps.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Charan sparsh: asking for a blessing with your whole body.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A ring dropped from a branch.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Rama and Sita inside.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A broken tusk for a pen.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

Mum's sister is Masi, Dad's sister is Foi, Mum's brother is Mama, Dad's brother is Kaka.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Bamboo and Krishna.

From the original text · Art and music histories

A brahmin's greeting under the Rishyamukha hill.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Mooshika.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Nandi at the door, the snake and the mouse who get along.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

A lamp in a clay pot, a circle around it.

From the original text · Devi Mahatmya (Durga Saptashati)

Nine nights in a circle.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A lamp, a song, a circle of light.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources