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Dussehra is an important festival of Hindus which is celebrated with delight in all over India. It is organized on the Dasami date of the Shukla Paksha of Ashwin Mas. Lord Rama had killed Ravana on this day and Goddess Durga had conquered Mahishasur after the war of nine nights and 10 days. Dussehra is celebrated as the victory of truth on the unreal. Hence it is also known as Vijaya Dashmi.Dussehra is considered to be one of the three very auspicious months of the year. On this day people worship arms, vehicles and books. It is believed that there is success in the work initiated on the day of Dussehra. Therefore, to start any new work, it is started on this day. In ancient times, the king used to pray for victory on this day and came out for war. Maratha Ratna Shivaji also went out against Aurangzeb on this day and protected Hindu religion.
To celebrate the Dasara festival, large fairs are organized in place. Here people come with their family, friends and enjoy the fair under the open sky. Various types of items, bangles, toys and clothes are sold in the fair. Along with this the food is also full of dishes. Ramlila is also organized at this time. On this day, the effigies of Ravana, his brother Kumbhakarna and Meghnad are burnt. Artists take on the form of Rama, Sita and Lakshman and they shoot these effigies with the arrow of fire. The effigies are full of firecrackers and they start to burn as soon as the fire starts. The crackers in them begin to burst and end them. This festival symbolizes the victory of good over evil.
The festival of Dusshera is celebrated in different states of India. Durgah of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh is very famous. The hill people here take their poojamam pahajamasam puja. In Punjab, nine days of Dussehra Navaratri are celebrated with fasting. The festival of Dusshera is celebrated with the worship of Mother Danteshwari in Bastar. In Bengal, Orissa and Assam it is celebrated as Durgapuja. There are beautiful statues of ladies set up. Mother Durga is worshiped for four days of Saptami, Ashtami, Navami and Dashami. Of these, special worship is done on the Dasami day. Ladies are Goddess Vedas and they play a vermilion game. In Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Dussehra lasts nine days, in which worship of Goddess Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga is performed. Dussehra festival is celebrated by the Garba dance in Gujarat. In this, the virgin girls dance with a colorful pitcher on the head. Mother Durga is dedicated to Navratri in nine days before Dussehra in Maharashtra. In Kashmir, the first nine days of Dusshera is the tradition of fasting and drinking only water.
There is also a cultural aspect of Dushehra. India is a farming country. When a farmer brings a grain of Rupees to his farm by cultivating a golden crop in his farm, his happiness is not adequate. On the occasion of this happiness, he accepts God’s grace and worshiped him to reveal it. The festival of Dussehra gives 10 types of sins to give inspiration to abandonment of work, anger, greed, attachment, item, envy, ego, idleness, violence and theft. In this way, Dussehra is a festival of joy and it fills us with renewed enthusiasm for life.