Dussehra Vijayadashami

Dussehra

When:
October 12, 2024 all-day
2024-10-12T00:00:00+05:30
2024-10-13T00:00:00+05:30

Vijayadashami or Dussehra is celebrated as victory of Lord Rama over Demon Ravana on the tenth day of Ashvin or Ashwayuja Shukla Paksha as per the Hindu lunar calendar which falls in the Gregorian months of September or October. It is also triumph of Goddess Durga over the buffalo Demon Mahishasura. Vijayadashami is also known as Dussehra or Dasara. In Nepal Dasara is celebrated as Dashain. Apart from India, Dussehra is also celebrated in Bangladesh. Malaysia has an official holiday to mark the religious festival. It is a festival of reverence of good and its power to subdue evil.

According to Hindu mythology it was the day when Lord Rama killed Ravana, the demon King of Lanka to rescue his beloved wife Sita, after cutting ten heads of Ravana, on the tenth day of the ensuing battle. Hence, to celebrate the day, colossal effigies of Ravana, his brother Kumbhkarna and son Meghnath, filled with crackers and surrounded by fireworks, are burnt to signify the end of evil. Besides this, play enactments of Ramayana, known as Ram Leela are also preformed across India preceding Dussehra. These plays are based on the epic Ramayana, which describes the life saga of Lord Rama. Ravan’s ten heads represents ten bad qualities of a person-

  1. Lust – Kam Vasana
  2. Anger – Krodh
  3. Attachment – Moh
  4. Greed – Lobh
  5. Over Pride – Mad
  6. Jealousy – Matsarya
  7. Selfishness – Swarth
  8. Injustice – Anyaay
  9. Cruelty – Amanavta
  10. Ego – Ahankar

The festival is celebrated in different ways in different parts of India in various ways. In Tamil Nadu, it is celebrated as Golu. The idols are set to create various settings that portray their culture and heritage. The story goes like since the goddess Durga needed tremendous power, all other gods and goddesses transferred their power to her and they all stood still as statues. Golu ends on Dusshera. In Northern parts of India like Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand and western Bihar, it is a tradition to plant barley seeds in earthen pots on the first day of Navratri. On the day of Dusshera, the sprouts are used as symbols of luck. The festival also mark the change of the agriculture crops, farmers now harvest the Kharif crops and after Diwali starts with the Rabi crop. It marks the beginning of pleasant and cooler climate after the monsoon.

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