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Shitala

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Shitala (Sheetala), also called Sitala (शीतला śītalā), is a folk deity, worshiped by many faiths in regions of North India, West Bengal, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. [1]

61 relations: Azadirachta indica, Bangladesh, Bengali language, Bhairava, Bihar, Bihar Sharif, Biratnagar, Bowbazar, Brahmin, Buddhism, Deoghar, Devi, Dravidian languages, Drona, Durga, Garia, Gurgaon, Haryana, Indian subcontinent, Isakki, Jalandhar, Jalore, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jvarasura, Kali, Kathgodam, Kātyāyanī, Khanda, India, Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mand (Madhya Pradesh), Mandla, Mariamman, Medicinal plants, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nainital, Nalanda, Nalanda district, Nepal, North India, Oladevi, Pakistan, Paranasabari, Parvati, Prayer in Hinduism, Pujari, Rangda, ..., Sanskrit, Sheetala Chaukia Dham Mandir Jaunpur, Sheetla Mata Mandir Gurgaon, Shitala Mata Dham, Shiva, Sonipat, South India, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Vajrayogini, West Bengal. Expand index (11 more) »

Azadirachta indica

Azadirachta indica, commonly known as neem, nimtree or Indian lilac, is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Bhairava

Bhairava (Sanskrit: भैरव, lit. frightful) is a Hindu deity worshiped by Hindus.

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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Bihar Sharif

Bihar Sharif is the headquarters of Nalanda district and the fifth-largest sub-metropolitan area in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

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Biratnagar

Biratnagar (Devanāgarī: विराटनगर), the of Nepal) is a metropolitan city and the interim capital of the Province No. 1 of Nepal. It is currently the second most densely populated (after Kathmandu) and the fourth most populous city of Nepal, with a population of 240,000. Biratnagar has been the most politically active city of Nepal, gifting a subtotal of five prime ministers along with hosting some of the most revolutionary incidents (the first anti-Rana movement, the first plane hijack, the castle for Nepali Congress, etc.) in the modern history of Nepal. The city has a total area of 29.9 mi² (77.5 km²), a geographical location of 26°28'60"N 87°16'60"E. and is located in the Morang District (in the previous Koshi Zone) of the eastern-most Terai region of Nepal. It lies 399 km east of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, and 6 km north of the Jogbani border of the Indian state of Bihar. Biratnagar was declared a metropolitan on May 22, 2017 along with Birgunj. It stands to be the third most populated metropolitan city after the urban agglomeration of Kathmandu and the Pokhara Lekhnath. The upgradation to the metropolis was witnessed via the addition of Tankisinuwari and Jahada-3 to the previous submetropolitian, pushing the total population to 240,000 (approx.) from 214,000. The city has been home to the Biratnagar Jute Mills, the first large scale industry of Nepal. Named after King Virata (the in-law of Arjuna), the city serves as the entrance point to a manifold of majestic destinations of Eastern Nepal.

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Bowbazar

Bowbazar (also spelt Boubazar) is a neighbourhood and police station of central Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण) is a varna (class) in Hinduism specialising as priests, teachers (acharya) and protectors of sacred learning across generations.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Deoghar

Deoghar is the head quarters of the Deoghar District in the Santhal Parganas division of the state of Jharkhand, India.

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Devi

Devī (Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for "goddess"; the masculine form is Deva.

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Dravidian languages

The Dravidian languages are a language family spoken mainly in southern India and parts of eastern and central India, as well as in Sri Lanka with small pockets in southwestern Pakistan, southern Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

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Drona

In the epic Mahabharata, Droṇa (द्रोण) or Droṇācārya or Guru Droṇa or Rajaguru Devadroṇa was the royal preceptor to the Kauravas and Pandavas; an avatar of Brihaspati.

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Durga

Durga, also identified as Adi Parashakti, Devī, Shakti, Bhavani, Parvati, Amba and by numerous other names, is a principal and popular form of Hindu goddess.

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Garia

Garia is a rural area and a neighbourhood of southern Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.

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Gurgaon

Gurgaon, officially named Gurugram since 2016, is a satellite city of Delhi located in the Indian state of Haryana and is part of the National Capital Region of India.

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Haryana

Haryana, carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1November 1966 on linguistic basis, is one of the 29 states in India.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Isakki

Isakki or Isakkai is a Hindu Goddess of South India.

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Jalandhar

Jalandhar, formerly known as Jullundur in British India, is a city in the Doaba region of the northwestern Indian state of Punjab.

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Jalore

Jalor, also known as granite cityJalore, is a city in Rajasthan state of western India.

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Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

Jaunpur (is a town and a municipal board in Jaunpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located 228 km southeast of state capital Lucknow. Jaunpur is located to the northwest of the district of Varanasi in the eastern part of the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Demographically, Jaunpur resembles the rest of the Purvanchal area in which it is located. A greenfield international airport is being constructed in Mariahu tehsil of Jaunpur to ease out the traffic at Babatpur Airport in Varanasi.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand (lit. "Bushland" or The land of forest) is a state in eastern India, carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000.

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Jvarasura

Jvarasura also called Jwarasura (Hindi: ज्वारासुर) in Hindu mythology is the fever-deity and consort of pox-deity goddess, Shitala.

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Kali

(काली), also known as (कालिका), is a Hindu goddess.

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Kathgodam

Kathgodam is a town in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand state of India.

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Kātyāyanī

Katyayani is the sixth form amongst Navadurga or the nine forms of Hindu goddess Parvati (Shakti), worshipped during the Navratri celebrations.

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Khanda, India

Khanda is a village in Sonipat district of Haryana, India.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Mand (Madhya Pradesh)

Mand (माँद) is a small village of Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Mandla

Mandla is a town with municipality in Mandla district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Mariamman

Māri (/mɒrı/, /maari/, மாரி), also known as Mariamman (/mɒrı əˈmʌn/ மாரியம்மன்) and Mariaai (Marathi: मरी आई, मरी माय), both meaning "Mother Mari", spelt also Maariamma (மாரியம்மா), or simply Amman or Aatha (அம்மன், "mother") is the South Indian Hindu goddess of rain.

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Medicinal plants

Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Nagpur

Nagpur is the winter capital, a sprawling metropolis, and the third largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune.

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Nainital

Nainital is a popular hill station in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and headquarters of Nainital district in the Kumaon foothills of the outer Himalayas.

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Nalanda

Nalanda was a Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery, in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India.

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Nalanda district

Nalanda district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the state of Bihar in India.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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North India

North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India.

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Oladevi

Oladevi is the goddess of cholera and the wife of the Asura Maya and is worshipped by people in the region of Bengal (consisting of the country Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal).

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Paranasabari

Parṇaśabarī /Paranasabari"Parnashavari" / Paranasavari (पार्णशबरी) is a Buddhist and Hindu deity of diseases.

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Parvati

Parvati (Sanskrit: पार्वती, IAST: Pārvatī) or Uma (IAST: Umā) is the Hindu goddess of fertility, love and devotion; as well as of divine strength and power.

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Prayer in Hinduism

Prayer or worship is considered to be an integral part of the Hindu religion.

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Pujari

A pujari or archaka (Sanskrit: पूजारी) is a Hindu temple priest.

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Rangda

Rangda is the demon queen of the leyaks in Bali, according to traditional Balinese mythology.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Sheetala Chaukia Dham Mandir Jaunpur

The temple of Maa Sheetla Chaukiya Devi is quite old.

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Sheetla Mata Mandir Gurgaon

Sheetla Mata Temple (श्री शीतला माता मंदिर, ਸ਼ਠੱਲਾ ਮਾਤਾ ਮੰਦਰ) is an ancient temple dedicated to the Mata Sheetla Devi, wife of Guru Dronacharya who was the teacher of the Pandavas and Kauravas according to an Indian epic Mahabharata.

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Shitala Mata Dham

Shitala Mata Dham or Shitala Mata Mandir is located near Mata Pokhara, Mau.

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Shiva

Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, IAST: Śiva, lit. the auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.

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Sonipat

Sonipat,सोनीपत, ਸੋਨੀਪਤ also spelled as Sonepat, is a city and a Municipal Corporation in Haryana state of India.

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South India

South India is the area encompassing the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, occupying 19% of India's area.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, officially the State of Uttarakhand (Uttarākhaṇḍ Rājya), formerly known as Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India.

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Vajrayogini

Vajrayoginī (Vajrayoginī;, Dorjé Neljorma; Огторгуйд Одогч, Нархажид) is a Tantric Buddhist female Buddha and a. Vajrayoginī's essence is "great passion" (maharaga), a transcendent passion that is free of selfishness and illusion, and intensely works for the well-being of others and for the destruction of ego clinging.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitala

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