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Throughout the Bengali calendar, many festivals are celebrated. Durga Puja is solemnized as perhaps the most significant of all celebrations in West Bengal. [ 1 ] Here is a list of the main festivals of West Bengal.
The non-Bengali Durga Puja rituals tend to be essentially Vedic in nature but they too incorporate esoteric elements making the puja an example of a culmination of Vedic-Tantric practices. [ 132 ] Historical evidence suggests that the Durga Puja has evolved over time, becoming more elaborate, social, and creative.
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 ...
This is a list of festivals in Bangladesh. Almost everyone in Bangladesh has come across the saying “Bangalir baro mashe tero parbon ( Bengali : বাঙালির বারো মাসে তেরো পার্বণ)”, which roughly translates to " Bengalis have thirteen festivals in twelve months (a year)".
Name Remarks English Bengali 21 February Language Movement Day: শহীদ দিবস Protests and sacrifices to protect Bengali as a national language during Bengali Language Movement of 1952. 26 March Independence Day: স্বাধীনতা দিবস Proclamation of Independence and the start of the Liberation War. Last friday of ...
Barowari (Bengali: বারোয়ারি) refers to the public organisation of a religious entity, mainly in West Bengal, India. Barowari has significance associated with the Durga Puja festival, in which the Hindu Goddess Durga is worshipped; symbolising the victory of good over evil.
The puja is described in the Skanda Purana, [1] a medieval era Sanskrit text. [2] [3] According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world". [4]
The puja was performed by Raj Rajeshwary (Raj Mata in Bengali language) and before the start, a Jagatdhatri Puja was donated by Maharaja Krishna Chandra named Maa Jaleshwary at "Malopara Barowary". [21] The worship of the goddess was later resumed by Sarada Devi, wife of Ramakrishna. [22]