Dussehra | Hindu Festival India

 What is Dussehra and Why it is Celebrated?

Dussehra (Vijaya Dashami, Dasara, or Dashain) is a Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil.

Vijayadashami, otherwise called Dussehra, is one of the significant Hindu celebrations that is commended the whole way across India toward the finish of Navratri consistently. It is seen on the 10th day in the long stretch of Ashwin or Kartik, as per the Hindu schedule. 

The celebration is known by various names in different pieces of the nation and is praised in a special manner all over the place. In the south, east, and upper east India, it is called as Durga Puja and recollects goddess Durga's triumph over the wild ox devil, Mahishasura. The way the goddess Durga took to reestablish and secure dharma. 

In the northern and western conditions of the subcontinent, the celebration is known as Dussehra. In these areas, it denotes the finish of Ramlila and commends ruler Rama's triumph over the devil lord, Ravana. Around the same time or event, Arjuna without any assistance demolished the entire Kuru group that included fighters like Bhishma, Drona, Ashwathama, and Karna. The triumph of the great (Dharma) over the malevolence (Adharma) is normal to all accounts behind the celebration.

In India, the festival of Dussehra symbolizes the triumph of good over evil.

The festival traditionally represents the legend of Rama and Ravana.

Ravana, the demon king, abducted the beloved Princess of India, Sita.

Lord Rama rescued the Princess, proving victorious over the powerful and evil King Ravana.

The Dussehra festival is ten days long, culminating on the tenth day, the Dussehra holiday.

On the day of Dussehra, large statues of Ravana are constructed and brought into open fields.

These effigies are burned and with them the evil they represent so that the people are allowed to follow the path of virtue and goodness throughout the year.

History of Dussehra

The celebration of Dussehra portrays its starting point from the incomparable Hindu epic Ramayana which expresses that Lord Rama, the eighth symbol of Lord Vishnu, murdered the ten-headed Satan Ravana in Satyuga, as Ravana kidnapped Lord Rama's significant other Sita. 

Ruler Rama was joined by his sibling Lakshmana and a devotee Hanuman with a multitude of monkeys who went right to Lanka (the realm of Ravana) to battle Ravana and bring Sita back. On his takeoff, Rama implored Durga to look for the endowments of the Goddess of mental fortitude and quality. Ruler Rama at last slaughtered Ravana and vanquished evil. To praise this day, Vijayadashami or Dussehra is commended