Meaning of puja | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
   countable, uncountable
2. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

Examples

“The Grunth, the holy book of the Sikhs, seems to be becoming an object of idolatrous worship. They do puja to it, and carry it in procession daily.”

“‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.”

“The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.”

“Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.”

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