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From Date, Rituals To Significance, Here’s All You Need To Know Mahalaya 2022
Celebration of Mahalaya is paramount is it opens the window to the festive colours that entails this season of festivals.
Rituals
- People believe that on this auspicious day, Goddess Durga officially begins her journey from Mount Kailash to her maternal home on Earth. As per the Hindu calendar, the celebrations of Mahalaya begin a week before the Durga Puja celebrations.
- Different ritual practices are associated with this day. The begins at the break of dawn for some. Almost in every Bengali household people wale early in the morning – even before the sun. Some Hindu households offer the ritual of pitru tarpan during this day wherein they offer prayers and offerings (pind-daan) on the banks of the river Ganga for the departed ancestors. They also serve ‘bhog’ to the Brahmins, along with food and materials to the needy. Some even prefer listening to the Mahishasuramardini composition.
Significance
- Mahalaya is the beginning of Debi Paksha (the era of the goddess) and is observed on the last of Pitru Paksha.
- In the Bengali community, Mahalaya is an auspicious day that heralds Durga Puja. Officially the celebrations begin from this day marking the arrival of Goddess Durga from Kailash parvat to Earth. As Pitra Paksha culminates, it is also known as Sarva Pitra Amavasya.
- Also, known as Chokku Daan- it is on this day when the artisans who work hard over months to chisel and sculpt beautiful idols of Maa Durga, apply final touches and as per ritual paint the mesmerising eyes of the deity.
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