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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During Nepal's eight-day festival of Indra-jatra, the Kumari works hard at the goddess trade-receiving the homage of King Mahendra, being toted through the city in a gilt-covered copper carriage drawn by 25 men, giving her worshipers tika (a dot of white powder on their foreheads), getting used to sitting quietly on her throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: The Newest Goddess | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...turn from the way of the spirit. There are also human sacrifices, torture, man-trampling elephants, death plunges, demons, ghosts and imps. Beyond that, the film will have sets appeal too: towering Brahman temples, 900-ft. wooden bridges, a stupendous, four-armed 84-ft. statue of the god Indra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: The Zen Commandments | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...INDRA DEVI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1960 | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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