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Sunday, February 16 2025
Mangaluru

Ayudha Puja celebrated across the city

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Mangalore:The Ninth Day of Navrathri is Mahanavami in Dushera is exclusively held as Ayudha Puja.It is also called “Astra Puja”, the synonym for Ayudha Puja. In simple terms, it means “Worship of Implements”

In Karnataka, the celebration is for killing of the demon king Mahishasura by goddess Chamundeshwari. After slaying of the demon king, the weapons were kept out for worship. While Navaratri festival is observed all over the country but in South Indian states, where it is widely celebrated as Ayudha Puja,there are slight variations of worship procedure.

The Puja is considered a meaningful custom, which focuses specific attention to ones profession and its related tools and connotes that a divine force is working behind it to perform well and for getting the proper reward.

In the cross cultural development that has revolutionized the society, with modern science making a lasting impact on the scientific knowledge and industrial base in India, the ethos of the old religious order is retained by worship of computers and typewriters also during the Ayudha Puja, in the same manner as practised in the past for weapons of warfare.Even vehicles are washed and decorated, and puja performed for them on this occasion.

Ayudah Puja has become very popular when business houses celebrate it ardently.

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