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const vidhi = [
    {
        english: 'The vrat of Santoshi Mata is kept on Fridays. One resolves to keep it for sixteen consecutive Fridays, or until the heart’s wish is fulfilled, and to complete it with an udyapan. On the Friday the one keeping the vrat bathes and fasts, taking only a single meal in the day.',
    },
    {
        english: 'The defining rule of the vrat is that nothing sour may be eaten or even handled. The one fasting takes no sour food, and on that day no one in the household should eat anything sour, nor give any sour thing away, nor take any in. Many also keep the day free of quarrels and harsh words, in keeping with the Mata’s name — Santoshi, the Mother of Contentment.',
    },
    {
        english: 'For the puja the place of worship is cleaned and an image of Santoshi Mata is set up. A kalash or vessel of water is placed, a ghee lamp and incense are lit, and flowers are offered. The offering proper to the Mata is gur and chana — jaggery, or raw sugar, with roasted gram — which is offered to her and afterwards shared as prasad. The Santoshi Mata Vrat Katha is read or heard each Friday, and the aarti is sung.',
    },
    {
        english: 'When the sixteen Fridays are complete, the vrat is concluded with an udyapan on a Friday. The puja is performed, and a meal of kheer, puri, and chana is prepared, with no sour food anywhere in it. Eight young boys are invited and fed this meal with respect; as a parting gift they are given not money but some fruit or other token. With this the vrat is fulfilled.',
    },
];
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