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Editorial committee offers this souvenir volume as a garland
made of variety of flowers with devotion, humbleness and
non-doership to the feet of One Mother who reigns at SSVT
as five magnificent devIs for whom we are celebrating the
DevI Mahotsavam.
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Many scholars from India and US have written high quality
articles about different aspects of devIs. The articles cover
devI worship from varied perspectives. We are blessed with
Ashirvaada patraas (SrImukham) from our AchAryas. Different aspects of devI worship from Local History (Sthala
Puraanam) of devIs at SSVT, devIs as represented in different scriptures from Vedas, upanishads , aagamas, stotras,
music and visual are covered. devI worship from a broad
spectrum of sampradAyas from different hues and colors of
our sanaatana dharma are presented offering a wide perspective.
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We are delighted to see significant number of articles in
the Youth section. These articles gives us an insight into the
minds of the next generation of devotees. It is nice to see
Hinduism and the SSVT making a significant impact in their
lives.

contacting authors, reviewing, mentoring youth to write and

in other ways.
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Even to say that this volume is in Her praise is as absurd as
doing Arati to illuminate the sun or offering ablations (arghyam) to moon with the water from moonstone or bathing
the ocean with its own waters as SrI Adi Sankara observes.
The collection of articles in the volume are made up of words
that are Hers, the ideas that originated from Her and the
very efforts completed by Her Grace. Hence we just submit
to Her to tolerate the many known and unknown mistakes in
this volume solely due to our ignorance, and to bless us with
jnAna, bhakti and vairAgya, as we celebrate this event and
many more at SSVT.
We would like to acknowledge the services of all the volunteers
who helped us put this souvenir together, especially Srimati
Lalitha Seshan for typing all the Sanskrit verses in Baraha.
We would also like to recognize Sri Ashwani Ramamurthy
for providing the devI Photographs.
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