Durga

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स्वप्नशास्त्र के अनुसार हर सपने का कोई न कोई मतलब जरूर होता है. इन सपनों को हमारे ...

सपने में देवी दुर्गा का दिखना अत्यंत शुभ होता है. सपने में देवी-देवताओं को देखने का भी एक खास मतलब है. स्वप्नशास्त्र के अनुसार हर सपने का कोई न कोई मतलब जरूर होता है.

Started nearly a century ago at their mansion off Amherst Street, the Sen family puja has rules for new couples and no 'sindoor khela'

Many members of the family used to spend nights at the family mansion in the old days. Unlike many other family pujas, the women of the Sen family do not have the ritual of sindoor khela, but they do offer vermillion to Goddess Durga before bidding her adieu. Every year, family members from all branches of the family come together for the puja. This is a unique form of idol-making and that is the way it has been since 1926. On the day of Sashthi, the idol is decked up with golden ornaments and on Saptami, the elders of the family join the ritual of nabapatrika’s Ganga bath. The idol worshipped by the family is known as sarbasundari Durga, which is quite a rare form in Bengal. Earlier, on the day of Navami, the Sen family would be visited by European and Anglo-Indian gentlemen, all heads of the companies Sambhoonath was associated with. Also, the family has never had animal sacrifices in the history of puja. Thus began the Sen family puja in Bowbazar in 1926. The Sen family puja follows the Vaishnav rituals of worship, and thus, no non-vegetarian food is offered to the goddess. Although he doesn’t remember much of his grandfather, he does recall that Sambhoonath, even after starting Durga Puja in his own abode, never used to come close to the Durga mandap during the five days of Puja. An ancestor of the Sen family, Bholanath Sen, had settled in Calcutta’s Kolutola area and made an enormous fortune by selling horse feed to the Calcutta Corporation race course.