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Ravana. The festival of Dussehra falls in the month of last September or October every year
two weeks before the festival of Diwali.
There are different customs and traditions of celebrating Dussehra festival in various
regions of the country. Somewhere it is celebrated for whole
ten days and priests of the
temple recites mantras and stories from the Ramayana in front of the big crowed of the
devotees. Somewhere a big fair of Ram Lila is staged for several days or a month.
DUSSEHRA ESSAY 4 (250 WORDS)
Dussehra is one of the most significant festivals of the Hindu religion. It is a ten days long
festival celebrated all through the country by the Hindu people with great enthusiasm.
First nine days involves the worship of goddess Durga that‟s why called as Navratra
festival. On the tenth day people celebrate Navratra by burning
the cartoon of the demon
king, Ravana. The festival of Dussehra falls in the month of September or October just two
or three weeks before the festival of Diwali. This festival is celebrated by worshipping the
Hindu Goddess Durga. Devotees of the Lord Rama and Durga keep fast for the first and
last day or whole nine days and worship the Goddess Durga. Nine
days or Navratra is also
known as Durga puja when goddess Durga is worshipped in her nine forms.
People celebrate Dussehra festival means tenth day as Vijay Dashmi by organising a big
fair or Ram-Lila where they show the dramatic life history of the Lord Rama. The Ram-Lila
fair indicates the legends behind celebrating the Vijay Dashmi which are Lord Rama and
Ravana. It shows the whole
history of kidnapping of Seeta, victory of Rama and defeat and
kill of demon king, Ravana and his son,
Meghnath and brother, Kumbhkaran. Real people
play the role of Rama, Lakshman, Seeta, and Hanuman
however they make the paper
statue of Ravana, Meghnath and Kumbhkaran. In the end, they burn all the three statues
of Ravana, Meghnath and Kumbhkaran to show the victory
of Lord Rama and killing of
Ravana with the sound of fire-crackers.
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