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    Mahalakshmi Festival

    Mahalakshmi Festival The Mahalakshmi Vrat ends today and like many other Indian communities who worship the Goddess of Wealth; Mahalakshmi Mata, Sindhis too, will celebrate the day by untying the Sagda (Auspicious thread), offering fried sweets and seeking blessings from the Mahalakshmi Mata. Mahalakshmi, the supreme ‘Mother- Goddess’ also referred to as ‘श्री’ (श्री in Sanskrit means ‘Noble’) is often considered same as the Goddess Lakshmi but it is believed that since it is impossible to imagine, to fathom and to describe the Supreme Goddess, hence the mere mortals generally follow Goddess Lakshmi, the manifestation of Mahalakshmi. The word Lakshmi…