Thursday, 03 October 2024

This festival starts sunrise kalik Ashwani Shukla Paksha Pratipada. This Navratri takes place during Sharad Ritu, so it is called Sharad Navratra. There are four known types of Navratri falling in a year. Two are gupt Navratri. Out of remaining two, which is Sharad Navratri and Chaitra Navratri. Sharad Navratri is the most significant one.

This festival celebrated the victory of Goddess Durga against the demon Mahishasura. During the Shardiya Navratri festival, idols of Goddess Durga are installed in pandals and nine forms of Goddess Durga are worshiped for nine days. People celebrate the festivals through fasting, meditating and worshiping the nine forms of the goddess.While some people fast for all nine days, others observe the fast for the first and the last day to celebrate the onset and the end of the festival.

Sharad Navratra (1950 to 2050)