The Mahanavami Puja was celebrated at various temples and community puja pandals with gaiety and fervour on Friday. While at many places, Mahanavami Puja was held on Friday morning idols of the goddess Durga were immersed in the evening in rivers or ponds in the Dehradun.
Since the morning, devotees were witnessed visiting various community puja pandals like Karanpur Durga Puja, Bengali library Durga Puja, Hathibarkala Durga Puja, Sahastradhara Durga Puja and Junior Club Puja in Raipurto offer puja to the Goddess, worshipped as the slayer of the Asuras, the Evil incarnate, to ensure the reign of the Good. Devotion and delight were palpable in the air throughout the auspicious day.
large number of devotees also took part in yagya at 12 noon and they took "prasad ' and "bhog" at Bengali library Durga Puja and Hathibarkala Durga Puja. Additional general secretary of the Durga Puja Committee, Raipur, Tapas Chakraborty said on Friday, the day started with the Mahanavami Puja in the morning at7am, followed by " Pushpanjali" at 8.30 am.
The Mahanavami "yagya" was held at 12 noon. Approximately 3000 people took "prasad ' and "bhog". In the evening Arati was held which was followed by cultural festivities in which a Dance performance was held by Nayan Majumdar and group and another musical performance by Subhash and his group members.
Durga Puja celebrations will end on Saturday with the immersion of the idols of the goddess Durga in the river, he added. Several idols were immersed in the river amid chanting of mantras by thousands of devotees on Friday evening.