Durga Puja

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Durga Puja

(ˌdʊəɡə ˈpuːdʒə)

(Hinduism) another name for Navaratri

[from Sanskrit Durga + puja worship]

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The ceremony took place on the eighth day of the two-weeklong Dasain festival, the main festival in Nepal.

Girl, 3 is Nepal's 'living goddess' WORLD BULLETINS

The ceremony took place on the eighth day of the two-week-long Dasain festival, the main festival in Nepal.

NEW LIVING GODDESS INSTALLED

Fulpatti" (day of flowers) celebrations marking the seventh day of Dasain were held with zeal by residents carrying banana stalks, "Jamara" (barley sprouts) and sugar cane.

Darjeeling returns to normal after 3-month shutdown

One of the major considerations when using any form of public transport is to avoid travelling during festival times especially the major ones such as Dasain and Tihar (Diwali).

Hanging In There

Based on the latter, dark side of culture we find Heidegger's critique of culture as a sphere of public life in which Dasain falls into habit [Das Man]--the wrong mode of existence.

The marginalization of death in culture based on selected examples of modern literature and philosophy

One rare occasion that people were allowed an audience with the king was during the festival of Dasain and, even then, people lined up to receive tika from the king and immediately left the palace.

Conflicting representations of national identity: meaning-making through a Nepalese museum

Other easy-on-the-wallet festivals to watch out for till the end of the year are the Pushkar fair in Rajasthan, Mexico's Day of the Dead, Nepal's Dasain Festival and the Whirling Dervishes Festival in Turkey.

All's fair in fests

Astrologers were consulting horoscopes of candidates from Buddhist Shakya families to replace the current Kumari, Preeti Shakya, who is 11 and should retire during the annual Hindu festival of Dasain in October, temple officials said.

Goddess wanted

These were Mahashivaratri, Buddha Jayanti, Falgun Purnima, Krishna Asthami, Dasain, and Tihar.

Nepal

Svanti, which falls two weeks after Dasain, is another great festival of the country.

The Svanti festival: victory over death and the renewal of the ritual cycle in Nepal

Nepal's government Monday welcomed last week's pledge by Maoist rebels to suspend armed operations during the Hindu festival of Dasain beginning this week, and promised to follow suit.