Ghanta Karna Puja falls on the twenty-ninth solar Phalguna; fourteenth day that is 14th March. This is also a minor festival, and apparently confined to Bengal. Ghanta-karna, one of Shiva's ganas, or attendants, is to be worshipped under the type of a water-jar: the object of the rite is expressed in this prayer, which accompanies the presentation of fruits and flowers to the jar: “Oh Ghanta-karna! Healer of diseases, do thou preserve me from the fear of coetaneous affections" Ghanta-karna is described in the Shiva Purana as endowed with great personal beauty, and is, therefore, reputed to sympathise with those who suffer any disfigurement. In India there are directions for worshipping Maheshwara, or Shiva himself, on the fourteenth of the light half of Phalguna.
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