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<p> a Hindu festival in honor of the sun, which is celebrated annually on Jan. 9. The high-caste [[Brahmins]] look upon this as a lucky and propitious day, but the [[Sudras]] hold it as sacred, and visit one another with presents. They boil rice on this day with milk outside the house, in some place exposed to the sun's rays, and when that luminary withdraws they cry out "Pongol!" and repeat it four times. The rice thus boiled is regarded as very holy, and kept as long as possible. The day after the [[Pongol]] the cows and buffaloes are led out early into the country, having their heads adorned with crowns and cakes. </p> | <p> a Hindu festival in honor of the sun, which is celebrated annually on Jan. 9. The high-caste [[Brahmins]] look upon this as a lucky and propitious day, but the [[Sudras]] hold it as sacred, and visit one another with presents. They boil rice on this day with milk outside the house, in some place exposed to the sun's rays, and when that luminary withdraws they cry out "Pongol!" and repeat it four times. The rice thus boiled is regarded as very holy, and kept as long as possible. The day after the [[Pongol]] the cows and buffaloes are led out early into the country, having their heads adorned with crowns and cakes. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_56278"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/pongol Pongol from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_56278"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/pongol Pongol from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:41, 15 October 2021
Pongol [1]
a Hindu festival in honor of the sun, which is celebrated annually on Jan. 9. The high-caste Brahmins look upon this as a lucky and propitious day, but the Sudras hold it as sacred, and visit one another with presents. They boil rice on this day with milk outside the house, in some place exposed to the sun's rays, and when that luminary withdraws they cry out "Pongol!" and repeat it four times. The rice thus boiled is regarded as very holy, and kept as long as possible. The day after the Pongol the cows and buffaloes are led out early into the country, having their heads adorned with crowns and cakes.
