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This is a celebration of Kullu Dussehra the famous International Mega Dussehra festival is celebrated in the month of October in Himachal Pradesh state in northern India. Legend has it that deity worship began in the Kullu Valley when a sage Saptarishis (Seven Great Sages Rishi) after returned from a pilgrimage to Maharishi Jamdagni went to his hermitage at Malana. Saptarishi carried a basket filled with eighteen statues of different gods. Crossing through Chanderkhani pass, he arrived upon a violent storm. Trying to stay on his feet, Maharishi Jamdagni's basket was thrown from his head, separating the images to many far places. Hill people, finding these images saw them take shape or form as Gods and began to worship them. The images of gods are being carried in palanquins, trumpets blowi
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