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Vrat katha

Full stories of the fasts and festivals, the next one first.

In a folk miniature-painting style: at dawn in a humble forest hermitage, a young woman in a simple saree kneels with folded hands before the goddess Durga, who appears in golden light, eight-armed and seated on a lion, one hand raised in blessing; an oil lamp and red hibiscus flowers lie on a leaf plate before her
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In short

A vrat katha is the story heard and told during the puja of a fast or festival. Each katha here is complete, checked against at least two sources and told in our own words, and where different tellings are current they are named.