The goddess Durga festival: Durga life

Goddess Durga (Goddess Durga) classic form

Durga Festival, (English Worship of Durga, Durgotsava, Festival of Durga) is Durga the Worship of the goddess Durga Festival, also known as Durga Festival, desai section.It is aThe HinduOne of the major festivals, is also the biggest festival in west Bengal people.September October each year when the full moon, for 9 days in a row, so called "nine night festival", meaning "the goddess of the nine night".This is to commemorate the goddess durga overcome marsh, the devil's holiday.

Except in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan is the country to celebrate this festival.In addition, because this time it was the eve of the autumn grain appearance, people at the same time of holiday celebration with fertile land and the harvest of the year.

Praise to the goddess Durga Puja (Durga life), Durga divine comedy, Sanskrit (click on any track open play) more India divine comedy

Source of holiday

According to the puranas, once upon a time there was a terrible demon asura, he become a water buffalo, the torment of the gods.One hundred years later, the asura gods out of heaven, boarded the throne of indra.Then the gods to brahman prayer for shiva and Vishnu for help.Shiva and Vishnu asura BaoNveWuDao, provocation, then spit out a special kind of flame, to illuminate to the earth and the whole universe, then become a beautiful goddess, this is the goddess durga, goddess durga is the symbol of power and victory, with eight or ten arm, riding a lion or tiger.Hindus to thank the goddess durga feat, with a special way to send her home and family reunions, the rise of durga festival.

Goddess durga section at the end of the day, India Calcutta woman on a red pigment, wish each other good luck happiness.

Major activities in the festival

During the festival, everywhere god shed, gods.People listen to the priests in the sukkah reciting sing goddess of Sanskrit, and pray the goddess flooding disaster shelter for them.The climax of the festival was a goddess sent home.Men and women devotees singing and dancing, the images to the sacred river or sacred lake side, into the water.

Goddess Durga in time is not long, from the beginning of the 16th century with the commemorative activities, it's very common and popular to the 18th century, we find it is interesting to note the holiday is in the period of British colonial India, enrich its sacrifices by the British rule, by the time of the Indian goddess Durga temple princes to participate in the design, development to today, the temple also by the palace of the king came to every community.Every du goddess festival time, unlike the Gregorian calendar, is based on Bangladesh's history, is equivalent to our ChinaThe Spring Festival, decorating, everyone has to wear new clothes, there are big party in the evening and fete activity, in the playground, circular traffic intersection, pond, no matter what, have elaborate Pandals.The street is full of people,Driving a carSon go out would be a nightmare, so everyone to travel on foot.Allison stayed many days of celebration, the school also on holiday in this month, different works of people will rush to go home and reunion, some businessmen is even worse, simply good rest for a month, during the festival of completely non-existent state of people's lives.In Calcutta, with a population of ten million, there will be more than twenty thousand Pandals Durga female temple (temporary) was prepared, Pandals be colorful dress, coupled with colorful lights, it was very colorful.

Pandal is composed of bamboo and cloth, temporary buildings made of foam, etc, as a sacrifice to the goddess Durga temporarytemple.Big companies and groups will be appropriated for a Pandal, if is a community that is by the residents' committees door-to-door to donate money, and then ask professional personage to build.Every year there are comparison, select the best Pandal preserved.Should say every Pandal is one or a few artists work, every seat Pandal, delicate and distinctive, how can let a person plaint within a few days, in India set up numerous delicate temple in the land.Goddess of dujail, regardless of religion, the annual festival could be called the world's largest outdoor art festival.