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of which are presented to the goddess, and then distributed among friends and relatives. (Sleeman's Rambles, ed. V. A. Smith, p. 241; Thurston, O. and S.S.I., pp. 174–5; B.C.G.I., p. 173.) See also Crooke, 'The Dasahra: an Autumn Festival of the Hindus,' in Folklore, vol. xxvi (March 1915), pp. 28–59.]