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Durga Puja is also referred to by the names of related Shakta Hindu festivals such as Navaratri, celebrated on the same days elsewhere in India; [9] such as in Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, and Maharashtra, [B] Kullu Dussehra, celebrated in Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh; [C] Mysore Dussehra celebrated in ...
Kojagiri (Lachhmi Puja): harvest festival marking the end of monsoon season; Paata Puja (Durga Maay Aagmon) Khutti Puja (Ritual of Durga Puja) Mohalaya; Durga Puja: a ten-day festival, [20] [21] of which the last five are of the most significance. [22] is an important festival in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism.
Marathi people in general have adopted the Raksha bandhan tradition of sisters tying a rakhee on the wrist of their brothers. A special sweetened rice with coconut, called Narali Bhat in Marathi, is the special dish of the day.Coastal communities worship the sea on this day and resume fishing. [2] [3] Bail Pola: New moon day of Shravan August
The word puja is roughly translated into English as 'reverence, honour, homage, adoration, or worship'. [3] Puja (পুজো / পুজা in bangla), the loving offering of light, flowers, and water or food to the divine, is the essential ritual of Hinduism. For the worshipper, the divine is visible in the image, and the divinity sees the ...
[112] [139] According to Rachel Fell McDermott, a scholar of South Asian, particular Bengali, studies, in Bengal during Navaratri (Dussehra elsewhere in India) the Durga puja is the main focus, although in the eastern and northeastern states the two are synonymous, but on Diwali the focus is on the puja dedicated to Kali.
Arti plate. Arti (Hindi: आरती, romanized: Āratī) or Aarati (Sanskrit: आरात्रिक, romanized: Ārātrika) [1] [2] is a Hindu ritual employed in worship, part of a puja, in which light from a flame (fuelled by camphor, ghee, or oil) is ritually waved to venerate deities.
Ganesha as Mayureshwara with consorts Riddhi and Siddhi, Morgaon.Samarth Ramdas composed the arati inspired by Mayureshwara. Sukhakarta Dukhaharta (literally "harbinger of happiness and dispeller of distress", [1] Marathi: सुखकर्ता दु:खहर्ता, sukhakartā duḥkhaharta), also spelled as Sukhkarta Dukhharta, is a popular Marathi arati, song or bhajan (devotional ...
Bathukamma is celebrated for nine days and corresponds to the festivals of Sharad Navratri and Durga Puja. It starts on the day of Mahalaya Amavasya and the 9-day festivities culminate on "Saddula Bathukamma" or "Pedda Bathukamma." Bathukamma is followed by Boddemma, which is a 7-day festival. The Boddemma festival that marks the ending of ...