Durga Puja: The Victory Of Righteousness Over Evil and Falsity
Bhubaneswar: Dusshera or Durga Puja. The War Between truth and false, between virtue and evil, in which Maa Durga blessed the virtue and saved the truth by devastating the powerful demon Mahisasur. The virtue souls are celebrating the powerful women power of the universe in this festive season.
Durga Puja is a special puja (offering) festival that celebrates the victory of the goddess Durga over the demon king Mahishasura. In Hindu traddition it is celebrated for 10 days in the month of Ashvina. The 10 days celebration end with Vijayadashami when, amid loud chants and drumbeats, sacred images are carried in huge processions to local rivers, where they are immersed.
In various places of India clay idol of Maa Durga is being performed for 10 days. Clay image of the Hindu goddess DurgaThe eyes painted on a clay image of the goddess Durga in preparation for the Hindu festival of Durga Puja in India.
In parts of western and central India Durga is associated with the analogous festival of Navratri and worshipped in nine forms known collectively as Navadurga. These forms, or avatars, vary in the number of arms they are depicted with—2, 4, 8, or 10— and the mounts they ride—Shailaputri on the bull Nandi; Kushmanda, Skandamata, and Katyayani on lions; Chandraghanta on a tiger; Kalaratri on a donkey; and Mahagauri on an ox. The second form, Brahmacharini, has no mount, and the ninth form, Siddhidhatri, is seated on a lotus flower.
