Storia do Mogor 281.22.4

281.22.4

They depict this pretended goddess with a child in her arms ; they celebrate a festival, and hold a procession in her honour. It takes place wherever her idols are worshipped in the month of Baderca [Bhadraka], which corresponds to the moon of September, the date on which the Assumption Festival is celebrated, as everyone knows. This is the reason that these Hindus, seeing this image carried at night in procession with the same ceremonial as they observed themselves, concluded readily enough that it was that of their Bhagavati, and turned out to take part and do her honour.