Mysore Royal Dasara Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. The book would create a

The book would create a great interest in the study and research of Indology

but the Mahabharata2-have played a very big role in the life of the country

a monumental effort

Sen and also from such Euro-American writers as Lynn Thorndike

reproducible knowledge and power

Mysore Royal Dasara Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. The book would create aIndia is perhaps the only country where goddesses are still widely worshipped. The origin and nature of many of these present day Goddesses and their cults go back to primordial times. But the centre of all mother goddess worship is the desire to propitiate and praise the powers of nature for promoting growth and fertility. The nine day autumnal festival of Navaratri is an expanded and systematized form of such a fertility and thanksgiving festival.