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शिगमोत्सव गोवा में फागुन के महीने में होली की तरह दस दिन तक मनाया जाता है । Panaji in Goa In front of us was a huge, three dimensional, multi coloured, figure of a demon, with sprawling arms and lolling blood soaked tongue. Entire traffic slowed down and the on-lookers caste a greedy 'dekho' at the mammoth figure mounted on a ‘float’, as they call it. Curious to know about the line up of the floats, we craned our necks out of the window when we were told that the preparations for Shigmotsav had begun. An effort of several months altogether, goes into making of these floats. The theme is derived mostly from Hindu scriptures. Sita-Haran, stripping of the Daraupadi, and Lord Krishna coming to her help, Luv-Kush taking on the might of Lord Rama by trying to tame the Divine Horse after the Ashwamegh Yajna, Conquest of Rawan's Lanka, Ganesha going around in a prikarma around his parents Shiva and Parvati, Raslila of Krishan and Gopikas, and the demons being killed in duels, are the favourite themes of these floats. 
शिगमोत्सव गोवा में फागुन के महीने में होली की तरह दस दिन तक मनाया जाता है । Panaji in Goa In front of us was a huge, three dimensional, multi coloured, figure of a demon, with sprawling arms and lolling blood soaked tongue. Entire traffic slowed down and the on-lookers caste a greedy 'dekho' at the mammoth figure mounted on a ‘float’, as they call it. Curious to know about the line up of the floats, we craned our necks out of the window when we were told that the preparations for Shigmotsav had begun. An effort of several months altogether, goes into making of these floats. The theme is derived mostly from Hindu scriptures. Sita-Haran, stripping of the Daraupadi, and Lord Krishna coming to her help, Luv-Kush taking on the might of Lord Rama by trying to tame the Divine Horse after the Ashwamegh Yajna, Conquest of Rawan's Lanka, Ganesha going around in a prikarma around his parents Shiva and Parvati, Raslila of Krishan and Gopikas, and the demons being killed in duels, are the favourite themes of these floats. 
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