Durga Puja Dates 2025: Durga Puja is an auspicious Hindu pageant devoted to Goddess Durga and is well known yearly by the Bengali neighborhood in India, notably within the jap half of the nation in states comparable to Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam, and, after all, West Bengal, and around the globe.
Additionally known as Durgotsav and Sharadotsav, Durga Puja is a four-day pageant that falls on the finish of the nine-day Shardiya Navratri celebration.
Goddess Durga, the consort of Lord Shiva, is revered through the Durga Puja pageant, often known as Durgotsava.
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In response to Hindu mythology, the Goddess emerged victorious after battling the buffalo demon Mahishasura, who had boasted of being invincible and immortal, asserting {that a} girl might by no means defeat him.
The pageant celebrates the victory of fine over evil and in addition marks the homecoming of Goddess Durga to her maternal house, the mortal realm.
The importance of those divine items lies not simply of their bodily energy, however within the non secular attributes they symbolize (Supply: Unsplash)
Durga Puja 2025: Key Dates
The Durga Puja pageant is well known through the Devi Paksha (fortnight), which is fifteen days of the lunar month of Ashwin, which corresponds to September and October within the Gregorian calendar.
Durgotsav is well known for 5 days: Shashthi, Mahasaptami, Mahashtami, Mahanavami, and Vijayadashami; this yr, Durga Puja will start on September 28, 2025 (Sunday), whereas the principle Hindu pageant of Navratri commences on September 22, 2025 (Monday). Durga Puja will finish on October 2, 2025 (Thursday), marking Vijayadashami and Durga Visarjan.Story continues beneath this advert
Here’s a 5-day calendar for Durga Puja 2025:
