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Celebrations include placing Durga's image in a specially-decorated colourful silver swing, known as Makhar, and for each of the nine nights, swinging Her to the tune of temple music (called as ranavadya). This is locally called Makharotsav. [68] [69] The last night of the Goa Navaratri festival is a major celebration called the makhar arti. [70]
Navarathri is the Hindu festival of worship and dance. In Sanskrit the term literally means "nine nights". During this festival the forms of Shakti are worshipped. Literally “nine nights”, this nine – day period from the new moon day to the ninth day of Ashvin is considered the most auspicious time of the Hindu calendar and is hence the ...
Dhodha is a festival in Navratri dedicated to the worship of Hindu saurastra deity Shakti. The word dhodha is song. the is savrastrian trik or tretli. [2] During these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Shakti/Devi are worshipped. The 10th day is commonly referred to as Vijayadashami or "Dussehra."
Mysore Dasara is the state festival in the state of Karnataka in India. It is a 10-day festival, starting with nine nights called Navaratri and the last day being Vijayadashami. The festival is observed on the tenth day in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvina, which typically falls in the Gregorian months of September and October. [1] [2] [3]
Bathukamma is a hindu flower-festival celebrated by the women of Telangana and some parts of Andhra Pradesh. [1] [2] [3] Every year this festival is celebrated as per the Sathavahana calendar for nine days starting on Pitru Amavasya, which usually coincides with the months September–October of the Gregorian calendar.
Nine nights, ten days: Navaratri literally means nine nights (Nav = nine ; Ratri = nights). The first 9 days of the Ashwin Shukla Paksha constitute Navaratri with the worship of Mother Goddess. On the first three days, the Mother is invoked as powerful force called Durga in order to destroy all our impurities, vices and defects.
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Navadurga (Sanskrit: नवदुर्गा, IAST: Navadurgā), also spelled Navdurga and Navadurgas, are nine manifestations and forms of Durga in Hinduism, [1] [2] especially worshipped during Navaratri and Durga Puja. [3] They are often considered collectively as a single deity, mainly among the followers of Shaktism and Shaivism sect of ...