In Pictures | Vijayadashami celebrations

Updated - October 08, 2019 at 04:40 PM.

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On this day, women offer sweets to Goddess Durga statue that is kept at a 'pandal'.
Women puts sindur to goddess durga at a puja pandal in Mumbai. Photo By. Paul Noronha
Woman dancing post the 'sindoor khela' ritual.
Married women, on the last day of the festival, play with sindoor or vermillion at the puja pandal.
Women smear each other with sindur on Vijayadashami. Photo, By. Paul Noronha

Vijayadashami also is known as Dasahara, Dusshera or Dasara an important Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navaratri every year.

On Vijaydashmi married women in the eastern part of India play 'Sindoor Khela'. In this, they apply vermilion or sindhoor on the forehead parting of Goddess Durga and offer the goddess sweets, and beetle leaf before bidding adieu to her.

They also wear traditional saree and apply sindoor on each other while praying for a long and healthy married life. 

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