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śivarātri

śiva—rātri f. ‘Śiva's night’, N. of a popular fast and festival in honour of Śiva (kept on the 14th of the dark half of the month Māgha or January-February with many solemn ceremonies, observed during the day and night, cf. śiva-caturdaśī), [Rājat.]; [RTL. 90]; [428]

a form of Durgā (= mahā-kālī), [Hcat.]