How to use puja in a sentence
A quarter of an hour before the evening meal every Hindu, old or young, has to perform a "puja" before the gods.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyWith the money which he had in hand he used to buy cheap tinsel wares from Calcutta before the puja holidays.
Stories from Tagore | Rabindranath TagoreThe Saraswati puja was performed with great éclat and the five rupees could easily have been spared.
Stories from Tagore | Rabindranath TagoreMy kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our puja trip when we met the man in a train.
The Hungry Stones And Other Stories | Rabindranath TagoreThe large hall of worship formed one side of the puja mahal; on the other three sides were two-storied houses.
The Poison Tree | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
British Dictionary definitions for puja
pooja
/ (ˈpuːdʒaː) /
Hinduism a ritual in honour of the gods, performed either at home or in the mandir (temple)
Origin of puja
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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