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Durga Puja, also called as Durgotsab or Sharad Utsav.
Jagaddhatri or Jagadhatri is considered as a form of Devi, the supreme goddess.
Ma Kali, also known as Kalika, is a Hindu goddess associated with death and destruction. (Hits: 1263)
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Durga Puja, also called as Durgotsab or Sharad Utsav is an annual Bengali festival that celebrates worship of Hindu goddess Durga. It refers to all the five days observed as Maha Shashthi , Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Nabami and Bijoya Dashami.
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Ma Kali, also known as Kalika, is a Hindu goddess associated with death and destruction.
The name Kali means "black", but has by folk etymology come to mean "force of time (kala)".
Despite her negative connotations, she is today considered the goddess of time and change.
Although sometimes presented as dark and violent, her earliest incarnation as a figure of
annihilation still has some influence.
Kali puja, Diwali Kali Puja, Legend of Kali Puja, Kal Bhoi Nashini, Shyama Kali, Kaali Pooja, Kali Puja in India.
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Jagaddhatri or Jagadhatri is considered as a form of Devi, the supreme goddess. Her worship
is more common in West Bengal than the other parts of India. Her cult is directly derived from Tantra where she is a symbol of sattva beside Durga and Kali, respectably symbolized with Rajas and Tamas.
In Tantra and Purana, Jagaddhatri is depicted as being the colour of the morning sun, three-eyed and four-armed, holding Chakra, conch, bow and arrow, decked with red attires, bright jewels and nagajangopaveeta, a symbol of Yoga and the Brahman. She rides a lion standing on the dead Karindrasura, the Elephant Demon. “Jagaddhatri arises in the heart of a person," said Sri Ramakrishna, “who can control the frantic elephant called mind.”
Though she is worshipped all over West Bengal, Jagaddhatri Puja in Chandannagar, Hoogly and
Krishnanagar, Nadia is a special socio-cultural celebration in this region. In Kolkata, too, Jagaddhatri Puja is a major autumnal Hindu event after Durga Puja and Kali Puja.
Jagaddhatri Puja Hindu religious festival, celebrating Jagaddhatri, a reincarnation of the
goddess Durga. In this form, the goddess appears with two pairs of arms. She wears clothes of red ochre and is adorned with various ornaments as well as a sacred thread entwined round her throat. In her two left hands she holds a conch and a bow and in her two right hands a chakra (circular rotating weapon) and panchavana (five-headed arrow). Her mount is a lion.
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In West Bengal, Holi is called Dol Yatra and it also known by the name of Basanta Utsav. The tradition of Basanta Utsav, meaning Spring Festival was started by poet and Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan, the University he founded.
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