Durga Puja Dussehra 2023 date in Odisha, wishes, quotes, image

Durga Puja in Odisha will be celebrated from 21 October 2023 (Durga Saptami) to 24 October 2023 (Dussehra) as per Kohinoor Odia Calendar. Happy Durga Puja 2023 date, wishes, quotes, images, dasara essay, rachana, and DJ song below.

It is that time of the year when festivity, merriment, and religiosity take over. With ‘cotton-ball’ clouds floating in the blue sky, the beat of drums mixed with popular melodies filling the air, and frenzied last-minute shopping, Odisha looks set to indulge itself in Durga Puja from Saturday.

Durga Puja is celebrated in two different ways in Odisha. In Shakti pithas, the Durga Puja is observed with proper rituals for 10 to 16 days known as Sodasa Upachara, which starts 7 days earlier to Mahalaya called Mulastami and ends on Dussehra. Goddess Durga is also worshipped by devotees in different pandals across the state. The pandals are decorated with beautiful decorations.

Decked with exquisite pandals and beautiful light decorations, the Millennium City of Cuttack is all set to host the grandest festival of the season – Durga Puja.

While artisans are busy completing the welcome arches, decorators have decked up every corner of the city with impressive lighting arrangements, thereby adding sparkle to the festivity. Organizers have spent a huge amount of money on innovative lightworks using LED lights.

Be it the kids excited about their first pandal-hopping or youngsters decked up in brand-new clothes, everyone has a sparkle of happiness in their eyes as the five-day festivity truly transcends the barriers of religion and transforms into a celebration of life. Details about Gosani Jatra in Puri

The festival of Durga Puja starts with Mahalaya, the first phase of the waxing moon in Aswin. Thousands offer prayers to their ancestors at the city’s river banks or sacred ponds, a ritual called Tarpana. The inauguration of the Goddess idol starts on Mahashasthi. The main puja is for three days – Mahasaptami, Mahaastami, and Mahanavami. The puja rituals are long very detailed and complicated. Three days of Mantras and Shlokas and Arati and offerings – need an expert priest to do this kind of Puja. Because of this, the number of Pujas privately conducted by families has lessened and Durga Puja has emerged as a community festival.

Larger-than-life figures of Ravana, and other demons, are burnt on cold dark nights, with fireworks lighting up the sky, known as Ravan Podi on the day of Vijaya Dasami. Ravan Podi was started in the late 1980s by the Sahid Nagar Durga Puja Committee, and since then, more than 30 Ravana Podi have been organized by different puja pandals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.

The largest Pujas are held in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Balasore, Sambalpur, and Rourkela cities.