The Sandal procession (a ritual of anointing sandal paste) marked the second day of the 618th Urs-e-Sharif of 14th century Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz on the dargah premises ...

Anointment of sandal paste on tombs, the highlight of the 463rd annual Kanthuri festival at Nagore Dargah, took place early on Wednesday. Earlier, a large number of devotees witnessed the ...

At the Bedi Anjaneya Swamy temple, located in front of the Srivari temple, priests performed Panchamrithabhishekam using milk ...

They told the story of Darius marrying a Greek princess, whom he found extremely smelly and awful, even though she was coated with sandal paste, or Sandar. He managed to have sex with her ...

While devotees offer flowers, sandal paste and fruits to invoke divine blessing, the 'Thekkan Palani' Balasubramania temple differs as chocolate bars are offered in the sanctum sanctorum.

The sandal paste was then smeared on the dargah', an annual ceremony witnessed by thousands of people. Rameswaram: A large number of people, running to several thousands, thronged the small ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: AS part of the Chandanotsav arrangements, Sri Varaha Laskhmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam (SVLND) priests started grinding sandalwood for sandal paste at the hilltop shrine of ...

“During the Urs of the Dargah, the sandal paste anointed on the ‘Mazar’ (tomb) of the Sufi saint is brought through the back gate of the Sharana Basaveshwara Temple by the flower merchants ...

Make-up artists apply rice flour, kasthuri, sandal paste and herbal powders to make the faces of dancers glow. With flowers in their hair and lips red from betel leaf, the dancers move to the ...