Mysore Royal Dasara Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. but the Mahabharata2-have played a

but the Mahabharata2-have played a very big role in the life of the country

and others hold the view that the Sangam period spans about one thousand years from 500 B

so spiritually quickening

reproducible knowledge and power

a monumental effort

Mysore Royal Dasara Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. but the Mahabharata2-have played aIndia is perhaps the only country where goddesses are still widely worshipped. The origin and nature of many of these present day Goddesses and their cults go back to primordial times. But the centre of all mother goddess worship is the desire to propitiate and praise the powers of nature for promoting growth and fertility. The nine day autumnal festival of Navaratri is an expanded and systematized form of such a fertility and thanksgiving festival.