Vijayadashami is a festival
celebrated in various forms across India, Bangladesh andNepal. It is also
called Dasara, Dashahara, Navaratri and Durgotsav Bengali:
Oriya :
Kannada: Malayalam:, Nepali :, Tamil:, Telugu:
It is also known as Dasara (also written Dussehra) Bengali:
,Kannada: , Malayalam:, konkani:
, Marathi:
, Oriya:,Telugu:
(Punjabi: ) and Dashain in Nepali.
Dussehra is celebrated on the tenth day of the
Hindu autumn lunar month of Ashvin, or
Ashwayuja which falls in September or October of the Western calendar, from the
Shukla Paksha Pratipada, or the day after the new moon which falls in
Bhadrapada, to the Dashami, or the tenth day of Ashvin. It is the culmination
of the 10-day annual Navaratri (Sanskrit:, Navaratri 'nine nights') festival. It is the largest festival in Nepal, and celebrated
by Hindu and non-Hindu Nepalis.
In India, the harvest season begins at this time
and so the Mother
Goddess is invoked to start
the new harvest season and reactivate the vigor and fertility of the soil. This
is done through religious performances and rituals which are thought to invoke
cosmic forces that rejuvenate the soil. In Bangladesh it is a five day long festival and is
celebrated in mandaps (congregation).The largest festival is held at
Dhakeshwari temple and Ramkrishna missionary in Dhaka. On the day of
Dasha-Hara, clay statues of the Goddess Durga are submerged in rivers. The pooja is performed with turmeric and other pooja items, which are added
to the river in order to help the water yield better crops.
Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the
Hindawi (Hindu) Swarajya - Maratha Empire worshipped Lord Shiva and the goddess Durga in her Bhawani
form before engaging in military expeditions. Dasha-Hara is the festival of
Victory of Good over Evil. Buses, trucks and machines in factories are
decorated. Dasha-Hara is alsoVishwakarma Divas - the National Labor Day of India. Veda Vyasa is considered the foremost guru and Vijayadashami is also celebrated
as Vyasa puja. Shastra pooja, or the worship of the weapon Shastra/Astra used
by Goddess Durga, are worshipped on this day.
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