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Thread ID: 5126 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-02-20
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found at :[url=http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html]News of the Weird[/url]
The Agri Gold Co. of Vijayawada, India, has begun marketing an instant, just-add-water version of the holy cow dung that many urban Hindus use in their purification rituals, according to a December dispatch from Kolkata, India, in the Sydney Morning Herald. (The dung sells for the equivalent of 25 cents to make about 2 pounds and is mixed with camphor, turmeric and sandalwood paste, which alleviates the foul smell, which is the main reason many Hindus had been leaving the dung part out of the ritual.) [Sydney Morning Herald, 12-26-02]