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Durga Puja Clay image of the Hindu goddess Durga Bengali women in red and white sarees joyfully apply vermilion to each other's faces during Sindur Khela, with a decorated Durga idol in the background at a festival pandal. A woman in a red sari applies red sindoor powder to the face of a decorated Durga idol during the Sindoor Khela ritual at Durga Puja in Lucknow, India. Dhunuchi dance performed during Durga Puja Women in traditional attire immerse a colorful idol of the goddess Durga in the Mahananda River during the Durga Puja festival in Siliguri, India. Devotees gather at the riverbank at sunset to immerse a large, decorated idol of Goddess Durga in the Ganges during Durga Puja in Kolkata, with Howrah Bridge in the background. Durga slaying the buffalo demon
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Durga Puja
During Durga Puja, murtis of goddess Durga—astride a lion and attacking...
© Debajyoti Chakraborty—NurPhoto/Getty Images
Clay image of the Hindu goddess Durga
The eyes painted on a clay image of the goddess Durga in preparation for the Hindu...
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Sindoor khela
Bengali women participating in sindoor khela, the smearing of vermilion,...
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Custom of sindoor khela during Durga Puja
Sindoor, or vermilion, is applied to an image of the goddess Durga during...
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Dhunuchi dance performed during Durga Puja
A devotee performs the celebratory dhunuchi dance before an image of the...
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Visarjan (immersion in water)
Devotees bid farewell to goddess Durga on Vijayadashami, offering sweets to her murti...
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Immersion of an murti in Kolkata, India
Clay image of the goddess Durga being immersed in the river Ganges at the end of...
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Durga slaying the buffalo demon
Hindu goddess Durga depicted slaying the buffalo demon Mahishasura, red sandstone...
Photograph by sisleyceli. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase, M.77.19.27
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