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Popular traditions in Benaras, [however], tend to associate with entire month of Kartik with rasa lila episodes. Participants in Kartik puja, the Hindu woman perform on the banks of the Ganges River throughout the month, consider it to be a version of the rasa lila transfigured into a form appropriate for human woman, and enacted each year in celebration of the earthly rasa lila of ancient times.

— Gavin Flood

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Wherever the Aryans originated, whether their culture was a development of indigenous cultures or whether they migrated from elsewhere.

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