Jagaddhatri Puja Festival The ninth day of the bright fortnight of Kartik, kept for Jagaddhatri, the holder of the world: the goddess in a red sari on a lion, with the elephant Karindrasura under its paw, four arms and a calm face.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Jagaddhatri Puja
- हिन्दी
- जगद्धात्री पूजा
- বাংলা
- জগদ্ধাত্রী পূজা
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
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The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
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This day does not fall again in the next three years at this place. A few days are tied to the solar month rather than to the civil year, so a year can hold two of them or none.
What the day is
The ninth day of the bright fortnight of Kartik, kept for Jagaddhatri, the holder of the world: the goddess in a red sari on a lion, with the elephant Karindrasura under its paw, four arms and a calm face. Chandannagar and Krishnanagar keep it as their Durga Puja, and the lights of Chandannagar, strung a fortnight after Kali Puja, are what people come for. The four days from the Shashthi are kept, though most houses do all four pujas in one on the Navami.
- Deity
- Jagaddhatri, Durga
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Kartik Shukla Navami at sunrise; the four pujas of the day are done in sequence from dawn, or spread over the four days from the Shashthi.
The fast
Those who keep it fast until the first anjali. The bhog is the khichuri, labra and payesh of the autumn pujas.
Where the regions differ
Chandannagar, Krishnanagar and the Hooghly towns keep it largest; Rani Rashmoni and Ramakrishna gave it a place in the Kolkata houses as well. Outside Bengal the form of the goddess is little known.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.