Both faces gleam with delight as the answer
comes--'It has boiled.' Then both shout at the top of their
voices--'Oh Pongol, Pongol, oh S[=u]rya, oh Indra, Pongol,
Pongol.'" Gorer, _loc. cit_.]

[Footnote 45: The Crocodile, _makara_, like the parrot, is
sacred to K[=a]madeva, Love. But as Ganges also is holy it
is difficult to say for which divinity the offering was
intended. Some, indeed, interpret _makara_ as dolphin.]

[Footnote 46: A feast now neglected, though kept up by
strict Brahmans, occurs on or about the 20th January. The
orthodox adherents of the Civaite sects and C[=a]ktas also
observe it. It is a Cr[=a]ddha, or funeral feast to the
Manes. Also on the 26th and 30th January there are rites
nearly obsolete, the first being signalized by offerings to
Yama; the second, a Civaite feast (to his spouse, as 'giver
of bridegrooms'). The list is more celebrated in the South
than in the North. It is interesting chiefly as a parallel
to St. Valentine's day, or, as Wilson says, the nearer feast
of St. Agnes (21st January) on the eve of which divination
is practiced to discover future husbands. It is this time
also that the Greeks call 'marriage-month' (Gamelion); and
the fourth day from the new moon (which gives the name to
this Hindu festival, _caturth[=i]_, "fourth day") is the day
when Hesiod recommends the bringing home of the bride.]

[Footnote 47: In case any writing has to be done on this day
it is done with chalk, not with the pens, "which have a
complete holiday" (Wilson).]

[Footnote 48: The invocations show very well how the worship
of Brahm[=a] has been driven out in honor of his more
powerful rivals. For Sarasvat[=i] is invoked first as "Thou
without whom Brahm[=a] never lives"; but again as "Thou of
eight forms, Lakshm[=i], Medh[=a], Dhav[=a], Pusht[=i],
G[=a]ur[=i], Tusht[=i], Prabh[=a], Dhriti, O Sarasvat[=i]."
The great festivals, like the great temples, are not very
stricly sectarian. Williams says that in Civa's temple in
Benares are kept monkeys (sacred to Vishnu).]

[Footnote 49: Between this and the last occur minor
holidays, one to avert small-pox; one (February the 4th)
sacred to the sun (Sunday, the seventh day of each lunar
fortnight, is strictly observed); and one to the Manes.]

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