Navratri in Gujarat

Navratri has celebrated in Gujarat in the biggest way and it is a festival that ends for nine days. This is a festival mainly for the Hindu civilizations but people from other civilizations also join this celebration. Navratri in Gujarat has celebrated with true loyalty in the various temples devoted to Mataji. This is also factual of the temples which generally have a regular stream of visitors from morning to night.

The most common appearance of public celebration is the performance of garba and dandiya raas, it is Gujarat-'s most folk dance, late throughout the nights of these nine days in public squares, open grounds and streets. The navratri celebration occurs at four times in a year in the bright half of Magh, Chaitra, Ashadh and Ashwin. In fact, it has celebrated in and identical manner in all these four months.

Navratri Celebration in Gujarat

Navratri in Gujarat is the public event, where people present devotional songs and dances that are popular by the names of garba and dandiya. There have also observed Jaagran to devote the goddess Amba Mata. The festival has gone on the day of ninth. Each days of this festival needs a number of rituals to be carried out. The first three days of the festival engages preparation of small bed of mud where barley seeds are sown.

The early days are devoted to goddess Durga and her various demonstrations. The fourth day begins with the devotion of Lakshmi Maa as the goddess of peace and wealth. Throughout the fifth day, goddess Saraswati has worshipped as the goddess of knowledge and art. This goes on till the eighth day of the festival. On the ninth day of the festival called Mahanavami, Kanya Puja has performed as nine young girls has worshipped. These nine girls symbolize the nine forms of goddess Durga.