PENANG, MALAYSIA, October 13, 2003: Malaysian Hindus have been celebrating the festival Navaratri in their country since the early 1920’s. With each successive year, the festival has attracted more participants to the nine-day celebration in honor of Goddess Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. This year the festival culminated with a 4 km chariot procession starting at 7 p.m. from Penang Street and ending at midnight. Devotees followed the wooden chariot while singing bhajans and offering coconuts, fruits and flowers to the Goddess. A priest accompanying the murthi distributed holy ash to one and all.
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