Word: sanyahet
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...India, which the shadow reached just before sundown, came a kind of climax. For hours before the eclipse, orthodox Hindus had fasted, lest the food in their stomachs be polluted before it could be digested. Pregnant women hid in dark closets. At the sacred ponds of Kurukshetra and Sanyahet, near Delhi, waited 500,000 pilgrims who believed that during a solar eclipse all the sacred rivers of the world would flow into the two ponds, and that to bathe in them at that time would purge the soul of all sins. Since both the ponds were nearly dry, the Indian...
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