Word: indra
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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...
...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...
...INDRA DEVI...