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Durga Puja 2025 calendar: Maha Navami today; check out the complete list of 5-day festival
Durga Puja 2025 calendar: Celebrate Durga Puja with fervour this year with the knowledge of the complete list of dates during the five-day festival.
Durga Puja 2025: Durga Puja is celebrated with great enthusiasm across India, particularly in West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Tripura, Bihar, and Jharkhand. Spanning five days, this auspicious festival is a vibrant cultural spectacle, filled with grand pandals, rhythmic dhak beats, heartfelt devotion, festive attire, and mouth-watering traditional delicacies.
In 2025, Durga Puja celebrations will begin on September 28 and conclude on October 2, with preceding rituals and festivities beginning a week earlier, starting with Mahalaya on Sunday, September 21. If you and your loved ones are marking the festival, know the full list of days. Here's the calendar:
Durga Puja 2025 calendar: Full list of dates
| Durga Puja Day | Date |
|---|---|
| Mahalaya Amavasya | September 21 |
| Bilva Nimantran | September 27 |
| Durga Puja begins (Shashthi) | September 28 |
| Maha Saptami, Kolabou Puja | September 29 |
| Maha Ashtami, Sandhi Puja | September 30 |
| Maha Navami, Navami Homa | October 1 |
| Durga Visarjan, Vijayadashami, Sindoor Khela | October 2 |
Durga Puja 2025: Significance of each day
Durga Puja, or Durgotsava, is a five-day festival that begins on the day after Mahalaya Amavasya. Mahalaya is the most important day of Pitru Paksha, when Hindus pay homage to their ancestors, and it is not considered auspicious for starting any work.
The day of Mahalaya is also the beginning of Devi Paksha, marking the arrival of Durga from her marital home in Kailash. On this day, Bengalis wake up early to tune into the radio to listen to the recital of Mahisasura Mardini by Birendra Krishna Bhadra, marking the beginning of Durga Pujo. On this day, the sculptors also paint Maa Durga's eyes as part of a ritual known as Chokku Daan.
On Shashthi, the goddess's idol is unveiled, and rituals are performed to welcome her. It is followed by Nabapatrika Snan, nine plants symbolising goddess Durga’s forms are bathed and placed beside the idol. Maha Ashtami and Navami are the most auspicious days of Durga Puja. Meanwhile, on Vijayadashami, the visarjan takes place along with Sindoor Khela, where married women smear each other with vermilion.
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