Sindoor Ritual Marks the Final Day of Durga Puja
- 10 years ago
Women applying Sindoor on each other and marks the final day of Durga Puja.
Sindoor Ritual:
The next day of Navratri is known as Mahadashmi, this day Goddess Durga departs with her four children - Laxmi, Sarswati, Kartik and Ganesha.The day formally starts with the special puja, yajna and Maha Arti. Then the most interesting part of this day is enacted known as Sindur Khela. Its a complete Ladies funtion and that too only married ladies. No widow and unmarried women are allowed to participate in this.
This is performed infront of Goddess Durga before she departs. Here the Bengali women folk wearing traditional dresses offer vermilion (sindur) at the feet of Maa Durga and pray with betel leaf, sweets and smearing each other with sindur to bid farewell to the Goddess.
Source: http://www.amardurgapuja.com
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
Sindoor Ritual:
The next day of Navratri is known as Mahadashmi, this day Goddess Durga departs with her four children - Laxmi, Sarswati, Kartik and Ganesha.The day formally starts with the special puja, yajna and Maha Arti. Then the most interesting part of this day is enacted known as Sindur Khela. Its a complete Ladies funtion and that too only married ladies. No widow and unmarried women are allowed to participate in this.
This is performed infront of Goddess Durga before she departs. Here the Bengali women folk wearing traditional dresses offer vermilion (sindur) at the feet of Maa Durga and pray with betel leaf, sweets and smearing each other with sindur to bid farewell to the Goddess.
Source: http://www.amardurgapuja.com
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
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