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  • After 11 pradakshina, holy circumventing the chariots stopped in front of the temple.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Anjali 2007

  • This path is also considered holy circumvention or pradakshina and if done thrice legend says we earn blessing equivalent to a visit to Kashi.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Anjali 2007

  • This path is also considered holy circumvention or pradakshina and if done thrice legend says we earn blessing equivalent to a visit to Kashi.

    Hari Hareshwar, Paradise Calling Anjali 2007

  • To make one round pradakshina around the temple one has to make the round trip of the hillock.

    Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009

  • After 11 pradakshina, holy circumventing the chariots stopped in front of the temple.

    Khari Shankarpali Anjali 2007

  • Earlier that morning, the perambulating, chanting pair, Beat poets Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, had performed pradakshina, a Hindu ritual of purification, in preparation for the event. 1

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • Only after doing a pradakshina of Dadar from Plaza via Shivaji park to Gokhale road and finally Ranade road, I found that all the Maharashtrian restaurants Prakash,Aaswad,Dattatraya were shut .

    Archive 2006-03-01 Abodh 2006

  • Only after doing a pradakshina of Dadar from Plaza via Shivaji park to Gokhale road and finally Ranade road, I found that all the Maharashtrian restaurants Prakash,Aaswad,Dattatraya were shut .

    Holi-day & New Srikrishna Bhojanalaya Abodh 2006

  • a _pradakshina_, [34] but went up without ceremony and accosted him, with rude familiarity.

    Bubbles of the Foam Unknown

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