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Marathi Mangalashtak Lyrics – Vivah Mangalashtak Song Text in pdf

Mangalashtak is a prayer chanted during marriage especially Marathi vivah. Below are the lyrics of Mangalashtak in Marathi and it is in pdf format. You can download or save it for free. The text of the song was shared by a reader of the blog. The prayer is also chanted during the Tulsi Vivah - Tulsi Puja. It is chanted while performing the marriage between Tulsi plant and Shaligram stone. Mangalashtak literally means auspicious prayer containing eight stanzas. Who can chant the prayer? Anyone chant the prayer. It should be chanted with a clean body and mind. One should not have an angry mind while chanting it.  Lyrics – Mangalashtak Song Text in pdf

How to find Shradh Tithi? - How to calculate Shradh Dates For Yearly or Monthly Rituals and Offerings To The Dead

Shradh is the rituals performed yearly or monthly to dead parents, grand parents, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and other relatives. Shradh, or Shradham, Tithi is calculated in four different ways. The easiest method followed by some Hindus to perform Shradh annually on the same day of death of the person. The next method is to perform it on the same Tithi in the same Hindu month– date as per Hindu calendar. Next method is to perform it on the same Nakshatra in the particular Hindu month on which the person died. If there are two Nakshatra is a lunar month, the first Nakshatra is chosen for performing Shradh. Another method is a very rare option is to perform on the same Rashi – moon sign. While choosing Tithi, the particular tithi should be there for a majority of period on the day. It  must also noted that there will be tithi difference in calendars followed in North India and those followed in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Prade

No Entry for Foreigners into Juna Akhara of Naga Sadhus during Kumbha Mela 2013

Juna Akhara, one of the oldest mutts of Naga Sadhus, have decided to ban the entry of foreigners into the Akhara during Kumbha Mela 2013 at Prayag – Sangam ( Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh , India .) India Today reports  "This verdict was passed by a majority of sadhus of Juna Akhara because we have noticed in recent years that the foreigners were trying to pollute the atmosphere of our mutts. They bring drugs and liquor to lure our sadhus. This gives a bad name to the mutts. So we have expelled three sadhus from our Akhara and took a decision in a meeting in Haridwar on Thursday that the foreigners would be prohibited from entering our akhara in Kumbh Mela," said Mahant Prem Giri, general secretary of Juna Akhara. "It also happens that some sadhus who don't value Hindu morals, lure the western women and exploit them. This is the reason that we decided to prevent their frequent contacts in the Akhara," said Mahant Parshuram Giri, another sadhu of Juna Akhar