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Puka vs Puja - What's the difference?

puka | puja |

As nouns the difference between puka and puja

is that puka is a small usually perforated wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces while puja is a religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.

puka

English

(puka shell)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a small usually perforated wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces.
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    puja

    English

    (wikipedia puja)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 43:
  • *:The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.

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    * pujari ----