Shardiya Navratri: Nine Nights of Devotion

Shardiya (autumn) Navratri is the most prominent of the four Navratri cycles in the Hindu calendar. Beginning on the first day of Ashwin Shukla Paksha (September-October), it celebrates the nine forms of Goddess Durga, known as Navadurga. The festival encompasses the full spectrum of Hindu worship: from intense fasting and meditation to ecstatic Garba and Dandiya Raas dancing, from scholarly Saraswati Puja to the dramatic burning of Ravana effigies on Dussehra.

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The Nine Nights and Nine Forms

Garba and Dandiya Raas

Fasting and Worship

Dussehra: The Tenth Day