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"Pity it's not sixteen million. If it were sixteen million, it would be very good. The question would have been solved already long ago. Pity it wasn't twenty-six million"

#HappybirthdaySavitriDevi


Navratri celebration day 2 : Goddess Brahmacharini


Navratri celebration day 1 : Shailiputra, the daughter of mountains (Himalayas)




Navratri is a nine-night celebration of Durga, the Hindu mother goddess. It begins on the first new moon in early autumn – usually late September or early October in the month of Ashwin.

Navratri comes from the Sanskrit nava, meaning "nine" and ratri, meaning "nights." The festival is also called Sharada Navratri or Maha Navratri, meaning "great Navratri."

The legend associated with Navratri speaks about the great battle that took place between the powerful demon Mahishasuraand Goddess 
Durga. Mahishasura was blessed with immortality by Lord Brahma under one condition that the powerful Mahishasura could be defeated only by a woman.

Durga represents shakti, or female divine energy and purity. It is believed that Durga fought a nine-day battle against the demon, Mahishasura, at the end of which she was victorious, symbolizing good over evil. During Navratri, the goddess Durga is honored in her nine forms and each form has a particular mantra for meditation.


Saw a brass diya lamp with swastikas and om in the market today.

Diya, diyo, deya, deepa, deepam, or deepak is an oil lamp used in the Indian subcontinent, notably India and Nepal, usually made from clay/brass, with a cotton wick dipped in ghee or vegetable oils.

Diyas are native to the Indian subcontinent often used in Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Zoroastrian religious festivals such as Diwali or the Kushti ceremony.

A similar lamp called a butter lamp is used in Tibetan Buddhist offerings as well.




2008

Japanese adventurers said they discovered footprints they believe were made by the yeti. The 'yeti' footprint on the left, photographed on the Dhaulagiri mountain, northwest of Pokhara, is shown in comparison to a human footprint, right.
"The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Nepal, told AFP at the time.

2019

In April 2019, an Indian army mountaineering expedition team claimed to have spotted mysterious 'Yeti' footprints, measuring 81 by 38 centimetres (32 by 15 in), near the Makalu base camp.


Timeline Sightings of the yeti

Circa 326BC

Alexander the Great is said to have coveted a yeti during his conquest of the Indus Valley in 326 BC, but locals told him the creatures could not survive at the low altitudes.

1925

The first publicised report of a Yeti sighting came from a Greek photographer. N.A. Tombazi, a photographer and member of the Royal Geographical Society, provided one of the clearest descriptions, of a “figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright … It showed up dark against the snow, and as far as I could make out, wore no clothes.”

1938-39

Heinrich Himmler is said to have had an interest in finding the creature, with Ernst Schaefer, a hunter and zoologist, sent out to Tibet investigate.

1939-45

During the Second World War, Sławomir Rawicz, a Polish soldier, who claims he escaped from a Siberian gulag and walked across the Himalayas to India, said his path was blocked, at one point, by two yetis.

1951

Photographs published of several large footprints, taken by Eric Shipton, a respected mountaineer, sparked renewed interest, though critics claim the prints were distorted by melting snow.

1953

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reported seeing large footprints while scaling Mount Everest. Sir Edmund later discounted the reports.

1950s

After one expedition, James Stewart, the actor, is said to have helped smuggle parts of the supposed remains of a yeti from India to London, by concealing them in his luggage.

1986

Reinhold Messner, a celebrated mountaineer, claimed to have had a face-to-face encounter with a yeti.

1986

Reinhold Messner, a celebrated mountaineer, claimed to have had a face-to-face encounter with a yeti.




Yeti, (Tibetan: "rocky", "rocky place" and "bear") or Abominable Snowman (coined in 1921, by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury who led the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition) is a folkloric ape-like creature taller than an average human, that is said to inhabit the Himalayan mountains. Yeti is also known as "Bun Manchi" – Nepali for "jungle man" that is used outside Sherpa communities where yeti is the common name and Kang Admi – "Snow Man






Junko Tabei (born Ishibashi Junko; 22 September 1939 - 20 October 2016) was a Japanese mountaineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, located between Nepal and China, and the first woman to ascend all the Seven Summits by climbing the highest peak on every continent.

Tabei, a 4ft 9ins mother-of-two from a small town in Fukushima prefecture, undoubtedly changed the landscape of Japanese mountaineering. She founded the Ladies Climbing Club – the first for women in Japan – in 1969 with the slogan: “Let’s go on an overseas expedition by ourselves.”


This sholka is mentioned in the emblem of Nepal.




ll जननी जन्म भूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी ll

"jananii janma bhuumishcha svargaadapi gariiyasi"

"Mother and mother-land are far superior to even the heaven"

Lord Rama, Ramayana.

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