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Nine nights, nine forms of Durga, one book recited across them, and a tenth day of victory. Where each piece comes from, and how differently India keeps the same festival.
Before his last battle with Ravana, Rama wakes the Goddess out of season and offers her a hundred and eight lotuses — and when one goes missing, he reaches for his own eye. Why Durga Puja falls in autumn.
At the end of their exile the Pandavas hid their weapons in a shami tree. A year later Arjuna, disguised as a dance teacher, climbed it to take back his bow. Why people still worship the shami on Dussehra.