DUSSEHRA
REASON FOR CELEBRATION
The holy festival DUSSEHRA draws it's origination from the great hindu epic RAMAYANA which says that the eight embodiment of LORD VISHNU,LORD RAMA killed the ten headed devil RAVANA in the sath yog, since RAVANA had abducted LORD RANA's wife SITA.
LORD RAMA was accompained by his brother LAKSHMAN and his follower HANUMAN with an army of monkeys who went all the way to Lanka[ravana's kingdom] to fight RAVANA and fight back SITA.On their way,RAMA prayed to DURGA, to seek the blessings of the goddess of courage and power.
LORD RAMA finally killed RAVANA and over the evil. To commemorate this day, VIJAYADASHMI or DUSSEHRA is celebrated.
the story of DUSSEHRA
there are a number of storis related to the reason of celebration of DUSSEHRA.following are some of the most famous and prevalent stories:
ASSASSINATION OF MAHISHASUR
According to the hindu stories, the demon MAHISHASUR had been troubling all the god of SWARG LOK and the living beings since he had acquired undefeatable power. even the mighty gods,lord vishnu,lord shiva and lord brahma couldn't defeatmhim themselves. so they decided to do something in order to free the living beings and restore the swarg lok.
so they gae rise to goddess drugs whomis depotism of ma shakti and gave her the god like weapons. as promised, she killed mahishasur and so vijayadashmi is celebrated as her victory over him.
WORSHIP OF THE SHAM TREE
another story originates from the epic MAHABHARATA. as per the the pandavas had spend twelve years of exile and one year of disguise since they were banished and defeated by the kauravas in the game of gambling[chaucer].so they planned to spend the last year of exile in disguise.since they did not want their divine and powerful weapons under the shami tree.
at the end of the one year of disguise they came back to find their weapons and worshipped goddess durga,the deity. they went straightaway to the against kauravas after fetching their weapons and later emerged victorious.
the event took place in dashmi and since good had won over the evil, that day was called ''vijayadashmi'' and is celebrated till date.
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