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108 names of Lord Ganesha

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Lord Ganpati, who is the destroyer of all evils, has 108 names. Some of the popular and not so popular are listed here. He is the great Vinayaka. The most important celebrated is the Ganesha Chaturthi festival.

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Lord Ganesha

Lord Ganesha holds a special place in hindu rituals. No puja is considered complete if it is not started with worshipping Ganesha.
Lord Ganesha' various roopas

Lord Ganesha’ various roopas

Here are 108 names of Lord Ganesha.
  1. Akhurath
  2. Alampata
  3. Amit
  4. Anantachidrupamayam
  5. Avaneesh
  6. Avighna
  7. Balaganapati
  8. Bhalchandra
  9. Bheema
  10. Bhupati
  11. Bhuvanpati
  12. Buddhinath
  13. Buddhipriya
  14. Buddhividhata
  15. Chaturbhuj
  16. Devadeva
  17. Devantakanashakarin
  18. Devavrata
  19. Devendrashika
  20. Dharmik
  21. Dhoomravarna
  22. Durja
  23. Dvaimatura
  24. Ekaakshara
  25. Ekadanta
  26. Ekadrishta
  27. Eshanputra
  28. Gadadhara
  29. Gajakarna
  30. Gajanana
  31. Gajananeti
  32. Gajavakra
  33. Gajavaktra
  34. Ganadhakshya
  35. Ganadhyakshina
  36. Ganapati
  37. Gaurisuta
  38. Gunina
  39. Haridra
  40. Heramba
  41. Kapila
  42. Kaveesha
  43. Kriti
  44. Kripalu
  45. Krishapingaksha
  46. Kshamkaram
  47. Kshipra
  48. Lambakarna
  49. Lambodara
  50. Mahabala
  51. Mahaganapati
  52. Maheshwaram
  53. Mangalamurti
  54. Manomay
  55. Mrityuanjaya
  56. Mundakarama
  57. Muktidaya
  58. Musikvahana
  59. Nadapratithishta
  60. Namasthetu
  61. Nandana
  62. Nideeshwaram
  63. Omkara
  64. Pitambara
  65. Pramoda
  66. Prathameshwara
  67. Purush
  68. Rakta
  69. Rudrapriya
  70. Sarvadevatman
  71. Sarvasiddhanta
  72. Sarvatman
  73. Hambhavi
  74. Shashivarnam
  75. Shoorpakarna
  76. Shuban
  77. Shubhagunakanan
  78. Shweta
  79. Siddhidhata
  80. Siddhipriya
  81. Skandapurvaja
  82. Sumukha
  83. Sureshwaram
  84. Swaroop
  85. Tarun
  86. Uddanda
  87. Umaputra
  88. Vakratunda
  89. Varaganapati
  90. Varaprada
  91. Varadavinayaka
  92. Veeraganapati
  93. Vidyavaridhi
  94. Vighnahara
  95. Vignaharta
  96. Vighnaraja
  97. Vighnarajendra
  98. Vighnavinashanaya
  99. Vigneshwara
  100. Vikat
  101. Vinayaka
  102. Vishwamukha,
  103. Vishwaraja,
  104. Yagnakaya,
  105. Yashaskaram,
  106. Yashvasin,
  107. Yogadhipa
  108. Siddhivinayaka.

Why people do not look at Moon on Ganesha Chaturthi

There is an interesting story on why people do not look at Moon on the day of Ganesha Chaturthi.  There is a myth associated with this festival. If someone looks at the moon on the night of Ganesha chaturthi , then he would be falsely accused. According to the legend, once Ganesha ate lots of sweets and his stomach swell and became huge. He set out at night on his mouse. His mouse saw a snake and was scared. As a result, he tumbled so Ganesha fell down and his stomach burst open. Ganesha caught hold of snake and tied it around his stomach. Moon was watching Lord Ganesha and he started laughing. Ganesha was annoyed with this behaviour of moon. He pulled out his tusk and hurled it against the moon and curse him that no one would look at him, on the day of Ganesha chaturthi.  If someone does that then he will earn a bad name.  Since then people refrain from looking at moon on Ganesha chaturthi festival.

Lotus Temple – The Bahá’í House of Worship

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The Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi, India is popularly known as Lotus Temple. This serves as a Mother Temple for Indian Subcontinent and is a prominent attraction in Delhi. This architectural marvel was completed in 10 years under the supervision of a Persian architect, Fariborz Sabha. A team of 800 engineers, technicians, workers and artisans worked together to create this architectural marvel.

This temple gives the impression of a half opened lotus flower surrounded by its leaves. Temple is made of marble, cement, dolomite and sand. It has 27 free-standing marble clad petals arranged in clusters of 3 to form 9 sides, and these 9 doors open into a central hall which has a capacity to accommodate 2500 people. All around the lotus are walkways with beautiful curved balustrades, bridges and stairs that surrounds the nine pools giving it a impression that a flower is floating. The shining pure white marble, the majestic dome,the petals clearly standing out creates a sense of grandeur and awe.

In India Lotus signifies purity and peace and is a representation of the manifestation of God. The ambiance of the place and the scope of meditation inside the temple and the serene surrounding is very impressive. Lotus temple has no picture, statue or image. It is open for people of all religion. Its a spot of worship, unity and peace. Peoples of all religion can gather here and worship God without denominational restriction.

This monument has won praises in numerous architectural and engineering journals for its innovative designs and it has also received many prestigious awards.

Believe me if you will sit inside the prayer hall you will get peace of mind in no time and you will forget all your worries. In every visit I personally feel more and more enchanted. When ever you come to Delhi don’t forget to visit this place and I am sure it will have a unforgettable impression on you.

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Madhubani painting – A folk art

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This folk art painting originated in a small town Madhubani in Bihar, India. This is known as Mithila painting or Madhubani painting of Bihar . This art is characterised for its distinctive style, bright colours and natural paints. Today this art is popular not only in India but is very popular internationally.
The time of origination is not very clear. According to a legend it came into vogue during the time of Ramayan. At the time of sita’s wedding his father King Janak ordered the artists to decorate the city. Initially women use to paint on the walls and doors of their homes. Today also you can find this art done in many houses in Mithila.
Theme of Madhubani painting is religious and revolve around Hindu deities like, Krishna, Shiv, Ram, Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati. It also depict natural objects like sun, moon, holy basil (tulsi). It also include themes of social events like, wedding, child birth. The space left after the main theme is normally filled with designs of birds, animals, flowers and geometrical designs.
The brush used for the Madhubani painting is made of cotton wrapped around a bamboo stick. The paints used are natural colours, deep red is obtained from a flower (kusum), green from bel tree, light yellow from turmeric mixed with banyan leaf milk, blue from indigo and orange from palash flower.
For commercial purposes, these are done on hand made papers,cloths and canvas, but the theme and equipments of painting is still the same.
Few Madhubani designs.

Slowly and gradually this folk art of painting has crossed the traditional boundaries and reached the connoisseurs of art at national as well as international level.

Italian wedding

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Italian wedding tradition is among the oldest in the world, dating back to Roman traditions. Many of the traditions are still in practice. In ancient time, man request a women hand from his father, this is still in practice in some parts of southern Italy but now a man directly proses a women. In southern Italy engagement is in form of a party among friend and relatives but, this is not practiced in northern Italy.

Italian wedding

Italian wedding

Italian wedding dress:

On the wedding day bride has to wear some thing blue, some thing old, something borrowed and something new. It is believed that this will bring her good luck. Groom wears dark grey thin socks,cuff links, boutonniere, a tail cot including a silk top hat and gloves.
Wedding takes place in a church. Church is often decorated with ribbons to symbolise the marriage bond. Bride is the first person to enter the church so, all relatives and friends wait outside the church for bride and groom. Groom arrive in advance but wait and enters the church few minutes before the ceremony. Bride’s family sits on left side and groom’s family on the right side of the church.
Father of bride take bride and give her away to the bride, and then come back and sit. Then groom unveil bride and then rings are exchanged. When the couple exit church, rice is showered on them as a sign of good luck.

Wedding reception

In southern Italy, reception is bigger,longer and showier, whereas in Northern Italy its more intimate and less showy. An Italian wedding reception include an elaborate meal lasting four hours or longer, and may involve up to fourteen individual courses. One of the final courses is the wedding cake, or zuppa inglese, which is a traditional Italian confection of tiers of pound cake filled with chocolate or vanilla custard, rum cream, and fruit, and trimmed with icing shaped like flowers.
Bride throw away her bouquet on unmarried ladies and is believed that one who catches it will get married next. Another incident is the “cutting” of the groom’s tie into small pieces, then a guest – usually a friend of the spouses – walks between the tables offering the guests a piece of it and gets some money back that, in the end, will be given to the wedding couple.
Dancing is an integral part of any wedding celebration, and no Italian wedding would be complete without the traditional tarantella dance.
At last they give bomboniera to all the guest attending the wedding, as a sign of love, thanking, souvenirs for taking part in the wedding.
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French wedding

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French Wedding

A charming wedding custom of small French town, which is still in practice where the groom comes to her bride’s home early on the wedding day. Groom escorts her to the wedding chapel in a procession, headed by musician, followed behind by bride with her father, guests and groom with his mother at the end. In Brittany, children block the roads with ribbon that must be cut by the bride. The groom has to remove brains that have been placed across the road by those who demand and receive payment for these obstacles. All these obstacles are created for the wedding couple to overcome together and thus to signify their common path in new life.

A French wedding procession

The church is filled with incense and flowers, bride and groom are seated on two red velvet chair, underneath a silk canopy. At the end of ceremony a square of silk fabric is held over the head of the couple as priest blessing. The same silk is used to wrap their chill when they are baptized. Outside the church rice or wheat is showered over them as a symbol of prosperity.
At the reception the newlyweds toast each other from a engraved two handle cup, called la coupe de marriage. The traditional french wedding cake is called croquembouche which is a pyramid of creme-filled pastry puffs, drizzled with a caramel glaze.
French wedding cake : Croquembouche
Dancing is the popular past time in french time, the traditional dance is ‘rond‘ in which people join hand and dance in circle. After the reception, those invited for the wedding gather outside the newlyweds window and bangs pots and pans. They are then invited in the house for some more drink in the couple’s honour. This practice is called chiverie or charivari.
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