Durga Puja
durgā pūjāThe eastern Indian form of Navaratri, focused on great clay images of Durga slaying Mahishasura.
Where this term appears
- What is Navaratri? Worship
In Bengal and the east the festival is Durga Puja , and it is monumental.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
The Asur community, an Adivasi people of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, claim descent from Mahishasura and observe Durga Puja as a period of mourning.
- Who is Durga? Deities
… nine nights, and in the form it takes in Bengal, Odisha and Assam as Durga Puja, the largest festival of the Bengali year.
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
The Mahishasura episode is the one carved on temple walls across the subcontinent and re-enacted every autumn at Durga Puja.
- The Nine Nights Treatise
In Bengal and across the east, the last days of Navaratri become Durga Puja , the supreme festival of the year.