Navaratri

Its verses are still chanted every autumn across India, in the nine nights of Navaratri, as Durga rides out to meet the buffalo demon.

…rga's worship comes to its height in autumn, in the great festival of Navaratri, the nine nights, and in the form it takes in Bengal, Odisha and Assam as Durga Puja, the largest festival of the Bengali year.

She is Aparna , the leafless one, and that name is earned. She is Shailaputri , first of the nine Navadurgas of Navaratri.

She is honoured again in the autumn, during Navaratri, in the rite of Ayudha Puja , when the tools of every trade, the scholar's books, the musician's instruments, the artisan's implements, even the machines of…

It is the first of the nine nights of the Goddess, the spring Navaratri , the Vasanta Navaratri .

She appears at Vasant Panchami as Saraswati , she is invoked at the spring Navaratri that climbs to Rama's birth, she stands behind a hundred local observances.

Maha Shivaratri is a vrata kept by a whole tradition on a single night. Navaratri is a vrata nine nights long.

One turning, many harvests If Navaratri was the clearest case of one festival kept in many ways, Makar Sankranti is its equal, and here the variation runs across the whole map of India.