08-21-2006, 02:08 AM
<b>Durgaâs idol 'consumes' milk in Bareilly</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Lucknow:<b> Thousands of people in Bareilly were thronging a Durga temple following reports that the idol was having milk offered by devotees.</b>
It all started on Sunday morning when a woman claimed that the milk she had offered to goddess Durga had been consumed. Following her claim, thousands of people thronged the temple carrying milk in buckets, bowls and spoons to appease the goddess.
Some <b>people opened a milk 'piyau' outside the Durga temple to enable people make an offering to the goddess.</b>
Soon, <b>a similar occurrence was reported from a nearby Shiv temple</b>.
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It all started on Sunday morning when a woman claimed that the milk she had offered to goddess Durga had been consumed. Following her claim, thousands of people thronged the temple carrying milk in buckets, bowls and spoons to appease the goddess.
Some <b>people opened a milk 'piyau' outside the Durga temple to enable people make an offering to the goddess.</b>
Soon, <b>a similar occurrence was reported from a nearby Shiv temple</b>.
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