PLEA FOR WORLD PEACE
HINDU GODDESS INVOKED (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 4. Twelve hundred Hindu priests from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, assembled in Bombay for a sacrificial offering ceremony to their Goddess of Power, Chandika. It will last for 21 days, says the Bombay correspondent of The Times, and on the last four days, offerings of ghee mixed with incense will be poured into 100 fire pits, propitiating the goddess and invoking her blessing for world peace. The ceremony is being held in a large temporary shed on the top of which flies a triangular banner bearing a swastika, which, according to Hindu belief, is a peace symbol. Groups of priests sitting in tents with a small gold image of the Hindu god, Vishnu, will chant his praise without a break for the whole 21 days.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26352, 6 January 1947, Page 5
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