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The result was: promoted by Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 13:40, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Ganga puja[edit]

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... that in the festival Ganga puja, the Tripuri people of India build a temporary bamboo temple in a river stream and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases?

Reviewed: Ashutosh (spiritual leader)

5x expanded by Dr. Blofeld (talk), Nvvchar (talk), Dharmadhyaksha (talk). Nominated by Dharmadhyaksha (talk) at 08:57, 17 September 2014 (UTC).

Expanded enough (and I believe just long enough for DYK), well cited, and has an interesting hook, but more work is needed to get away from the simple rearrangement of the words used by the sources. For instance, the article says "Animal sacrifice (goats, buffaloes and gander) to propitiate the gods to thwart epidemics is part of the celebration", while History, Religion and Culture of India says "God is propitiated by the sacrifice of goats, buffaloes and ganders to save the people from any epidemic." Moonraker (talk) 03:35, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

@Moonraker: Sorry for late reply. Have rephrased a few sentences now. Please take a look at it. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 15:03, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Minor copyvio problems now resolved, this is ready to go. Moonraker (talk) 04:07, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

The part about being saved from epidemic diseases isn't cited inline. Yoninah (talk) 18:20, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

My mistake, I have fixed it. Moonraker (talk) 23:06, 8 November 2014 (UTC)