If children love hot dogs, pizzas, chocolates and cola, surely their goddess too will like these. That’s exactly the thought behind these unusual offerings made by devotees at a temple of Jivantika Mata, a goddess of children, according to the Hindu scriptural text Skanda Purana.
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