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Maha-Navami saddens Tripura, West Bengal : Bijoya Dasami ringing bell for Devi’s adieu for another year
TIWN Sep 29, 2017
Maha-Navami saddens Tripura, West Bengal : Bijoya Dasami ringing bell for Devi’s adieu for another year
PHOTO : Maha Navami observed at Agartala. TIWN Pic Sep 29

AGARTALA, Sep 29 (TIWN): With Maha-Navami’s beginning, time has come when Devi Durga will soon start her journey for Swargalok for another year. During Durga Puja days, forgetting all worries, hatred people get together & the sentiment of brotherhood generates among every sections of people.

But again with the cutting down of every hours from Navami, people are becoming emotional as mind doesn’t allow that Ma Durga would leave from Martyo Lok. With the ending of Navami, Devi will go far away on the occasion of Dasami Yatra. However, Pomp and pageantry and devotion marked the occasion of Maha Navami also across the state.

People since morning were busy to pay offerings to Devi Durga. At Agartala Durga Bari temple hundreds of people decked up in their best and gathered at the temple to offer prayers to Goddess Durga on Nabami morning. Since early morning, people have been thronging at Durga Bari temple where idol of the goddess Durga with two hands at her back and her four children are being worshiped amid much community fanfare.

The idol of Goddess Durga of Durga Bari temple is widely known among people for its distinctive structure of the Goddess Durga with only two hands at her back.

The idol is distinctive because, mythology says that Goddess Durga won over the evil buffalo demon Mahisasura with ten hands.The puja started nearly 200 years ago by King Radha Kishore Manikya Bahadur in the Durgabari premises.

It still enjoys state patronage with the state administration sanctioning lakhs of Rupees for the puja every year.

Interestingly, the goddess has only two arms at the Durgabari Temple where the rituals are 200 years old and is currently organized by the state's Communist government. In the early nineteenth century, Krishna Kishore Manikya Bahadur's queen fainted after seeing the goddess with ten arms.

Thereafter, on the advice of priests, Durga has only two hands visible while the remaining eight are hidden behind her back.

As per the age old tradition, a buffalo will also be sacrificed to Goddess durga, which is every year given by state government to mark the win of good over evil at Durga bari temple on the day of Navami.

Organized by the ruling Left Front government, the five–day long Durga puja festivities in Tripura began with a guard of honour by state security forces to the goddess at the Durgabari, a royal temple of the erstwhile Manikya kings.

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