To seek his blessings for a life filled with happiness, peace, and prosperity, devotees observe Thursday puja and often fast on this day. Brihaspati, also known as Jupiter, is a powerful planet ...

CUTTACK: Discontentment brewed among the Basanti Durga Puja organisers in the city over the alleged mismanagement by the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) in providing adequate and clean water ...

She loved butterflies, flowers, drawing pictures, friendship bracelets and collecting teddy bears. Survivors include her sisters, Betty Jean Gillhouse, Shirley A. Wilcox, and Phyllis (Melvyn) Young, ...

Celebrated across India, traditions range from Gujarat’s Garba to West Bengal’s Durga Puja and Karnataka’s Dasara processions. Each Day of Chaitra Navratri celebrates different colors along ...

The nine incarnations of Maa Durga that are worshipped during Navratri are Maa Shailputri, Maa Brahmacharini, Maa Chandraghanta, Maa Kushmanda, Skanda Mata, Maa Katyayani, Maa Kaalratri ...

is a day for worshipping Goddess Durga, particularly the form Mahagauri. Observances include Kanya Pujan, honoring young girls as representatives of the goddess, and Sandhi Puja, held at the ...

So, Maa Skandamata sits on lotus flower and this is why she is also called Padmasana. She has four arms. While the upper arm of her right hand holds Skanda in her lap, the lower arm holds a lotus ...

During these nine days, devotees honour Goddess Durga in her various forms. The flowers offered to Goddess Durga during Navratri is not just beautiful, but also spiritually significant. Trending ...

One must place earthen lamp before the goddess and offer white flowers and vermillion to her. One can also offer sweets in white colour to the goddess to invite luck. Devotees must also chant mantras ...

A special Sandhi Puja is conducted in the between of Navami and Ashtami. In addition to offering red flowers and sweets, devotees light 108 diyas (lamps). As manifestations of the goddess Durga, young ...

take a bath and start the puja Light an earthen candle in front of Goddess Brahmacharini and offer white flowers, vermillion or kumkum Offer any white sweets to Goddess Brahmacharini Chant mantras and ...

One can see Maa Shailputri riding a bull named Nandi and is depicted holding a trident (trishul) in her right hand and a lotus flower in her left hand ... while honouring the power and grace of ...