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enlighten the darkness

The Dev Deepavali or "Festival of Lights of the Gods" is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in mainly Varanasi, and a bit in Kolkata too.The main rituals performed by devotees consist of kartik snan (taking a holy bath in the Ganges during Kartika) and offering of oil lighted lamps to Ganga in the evening. The Ganga aarti is also performed in the evening.The gods are believed to descend to Earth to bathe in the Ganges on this day

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