Durga Puja, the special festival of the Bengalis.The people of Bengal celebrating this festival as victory of Devi Durga over the devil of devils Mahisashura.Every year Durga
Puja take place during the ARSHIN MASH(setember-october).After MAHALAYA "DEVI- POKSHO"
starts like PRATHAMA,DITIYA and it continu to DASHAMI. SAPTAMI,ASTAMI,NAVAMI and DASHAMI
are the four main days of the festivals.
The myths surrounding the history of Durga Puja in Bengal tell a very interesting story.
Once the demon Mahisasura succeeded to please Lord Shiva through his sincere meditation.
As a result, Lord Shiva blessed him with an immortal life. After this incident Mahisasura
turned into his true self and started killing people without a second thought.
Viewing such an atrocity, the Gods went to Lord Shiva and requested him to teach the demon
a lesson. It is then that Lord Shiva used his third eye or trinayan and made a Goddess who
had been endowed with one special power of each of the Gods of the heaven. The Goddess was
given the name of Durga. A lion became her vahana and she went out of the paradise to kill
Mahisaura. On killing the demon, Gods blessed Devi Durga and started rejoicing
.
In the ASHTAMI on which day SANDHI Puja is performed and vegetarian dishes or bhog is served
to the devotees. Navami comes after ashtami, which is followed by vijaya dashami when the idol
of Goddess Durga is taken to the banks of River Ganges for immersion.
vijaya dashami is the ending of a four-day long celebration, On that all bengali distributes
sweets between themselves.
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