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Shimla was annexed by the British in 1819, after the Gurkha war. At that time it was known for the temple of Hindu Goddess Shyamala Devi.
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We were now actually in the inner sanctuary of the Nanda Devi Basin, and at each step I experienced that subtlethrill which anyone of imagination must feel when treading hitherto unexplored country? My most blissful dream as a child was to be in some such valley, free to wander where I liked, and discover for myself some hitherto unrevealed glory of Nature. Now the reality was no less wonderful than that half-forgotten dream; and of how many childish fancies can that be said, in this age of disillusionment ?


— 1936  Nanda Devi.

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Rukmini Devi Arundale was an invaluable contributant to the rebirth of Bharata Natyam as an accepted dance form, removing the unpleasant eroticism of dasi attam , and like Queen Santala of the eleventh century, showing that dance is a means of expression for all and is a true form of beauty.


— From BhAratiya Vidhya Bhavan recordS Quoted IN Hae-kyung Um (21 July 2004). Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions. Routledge. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-0-203-64190-3. 

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Those that do not worship the Devi , go to Naraka or hell:;; moreover they suffer much from various diseases in this world . Those that do not worship the Devi are always defeated by their enemies , are void of wife and sons, become stupid and suffer pains from their unsatisfied desires .


— Srimad Devi Bhagavatam, in Baman Das Basu The Sacred books of the Hindus, Volume 27, Part 1, Genesis Publishing Pvt Ltd

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Vishnu is said to be beyond purusa and prakriti or to include both. … prakriti, like maya and shakti , in the Bhagavata, is something Vishnu possesses and controls. With prakriti becoming a goddess , or even identified with the Goddess, Devi , the old Samkhyan dualism, between a conscious spirit-person and an active but insentient material force was basically transcended “from the ground up.” P.30


— Devi-Bhagavata, in The Triumph of the Goddess: The Canonical Models and Theological Visions of ... (29 August 1990), p.30

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Ah! la mia lista Doman mattina D'una decina Devi aumentar!


— Ah, by tomorrow morning a dozen names must be added to my list!
— Don Giovanni, Act I, sc. xv, translation pp. 163-5.

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