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Name: Mahalaxmi
Country: India
Nice Article

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Name: mamta
Country: India
dhanteras is a major part of diwali celebrations for us. we await for this day as we have an elaborate puja and we start new account books.

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Name: Pihu Majumdar
Country: India
thank you very much for posting this informative article. i always thought about the relevance of dhanteras and hardly knew about it.

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Name: esha sarkar
Country: India
I think Dhanteras is celebrated in North parts of India. in east india, it is not celebrated as such. Being from Bengal, i know that we only celebrate Diwali as Kali puja.

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What does Dhanteras mean? How is Dhanteras celebrated and how do you celebrate it? What is the significance of Dhanteras?

ramesh

Dhanteras is one of the days of Diwali celebrations. it is a Sanskrit name meaning wealth and thirteen, coming from words dhan and teras. it´ s so named as it falls on the 13th day of hindu month...

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komal

we clean our houses and whitewash it before diwali. on Dhanteras,we worship Goddess Lakshmi so an elaborate puja is organized. all the rituals asociated with the puja are to done correctly to invoke ...

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Mahesh

Dhanteras is one of the days of Diwali. there are many legends associated with this festival. one legend has it that son of Him was to die on 4th day of his marriage. on 4th day, his wife knowing of ...

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