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... festivals . This means that , since each author chosen to enter the competition usually presented four plays at a festival , he must have competed some 30 times . By any measure he was the most reliably creative of the three most famous ...
... festivals . This means that , since each author chosen to enter the competition usually presented four plays at a festival , he must have competed some 30 times . By any measure he was the most reliably creative of the three most famous ...
Page 164
... festival in front of the image of Mariyammai ( goddess of pestilence ) , is to deter her from unleashing an epidemic . Tumbling and leaping , the dancer retains on his head without touching it a pot of uncooked rice surmounted by a tall ...
... festival in front of the image of Mariyammai ( goddess of pestilence ) , is to deter her from unleashing an epidemic . Tumbling and leaping , the dancer retains on his head without touching it a pot of uncooked rice surmounted by a tall ...
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... festivals seemed to have occurred by the early 1980s , however . Each locality , no matter how small , has its own festival , celebrated in honour of a saint for whom the town feels a particular devotion . The list of local festivals is ...
... festivals seemed to have occurred by the early 1980s , however . Each locality , no matter how small , has its own festival , celebrated in honour of a saint for whom the town feels a particular devotion . The list of local festivals is ...
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