Sep 29, 2009

HAPPY VIJAYADASEMI - SRI RAJARAJESHWARI DEVI

The final and last day of navaratri Sri Kanakadurga Devi appears as Sri Rajarajeswari. After her victory in the battle with Mahishasura we celebrate Dasemi the 10th day as vijayadasemi vijaya means victory dasemi means 10th day. She is the mother of the world. she is the form of Lalitha tripura sundari devi.she appears on the 10th day sitting on the throne and holding sugarcane in one hand, and giving blessings to her devotees with a peaceful smiling beautiful face.


In Kanaka durga temple (vijayawada) she appears like this in the day time and in the evening there will be a boat festival in Krishna river, they bring the Goddess Kanaka durga utsava vigraham(a small idol of Kanaka durga devi) down they decorate a beautiful swan shape boat with lights and place the Devi idol on it and make few rounds in the Krishna river and bring back the idol to the main temple this is called Teppotsavam. Dasara is a very important and famous festival in Vijayawada which is celebrated every year. Kanakadurga temple is the synonymous with Vijayawada. Special poojas are performed during dasara and also called durga navaratrulu.

The most important poojas are Saraswati pooja and Teppotsavam. In my child hood we use to visit every day to the temple almost, this much croud is not there at that time, but now a days a large number of pilgrims attend the colourfull celebrations and take holy dip in the Krishna river. In this 10 days of navaratri Kanaka durga devi appears in 10 forms and these forms of the day is chosen as per the astrological star of each day in accordance with the lunar calendar so that the dates will change every year. So these are the 10 days and forms for this year ,Maa Kanaka durga will bless you all with healthy and happy, peaceful life

22 comments:

ST said...

Happy Dussehra to you and your Family.
Lovely Post:)

chakhlere said...

Nice pictures!! Loved them.

Jyoti V said...

Happy Vijaydashami /Dasara to you and your family.

Sailaja Damodaran said...

Nice to read ur experience.....we wish u the same

Nandinis food said...

All the posts about Navaratri are awesome! Variety of dishes are lovely!

Raks said...

ha,thats my name :)
Nice post :)

Cham said...

Happy Vijayadasemi Rekha, nice to know and learn about Kannaga Durga temple !

Sushma Mallya said...

wow it was nice to see those beautiful pictures as well as to read all that....Happy vijayadasemi to u and your family

Jeyashris Kitchen said...

nice pictures. happy Dussehra to u all.

Sanghi said...

Happy vijayadasemi.. Lovely pictures of god..! Thanks for sharing!

Priya Suresh said...

Beautiful pictures Rekha, u r just rocking! loved reading all ur posts about navarathri..

notyet100 said...

lovely pics,..Rekha

Deepthi Shankar said...

Happy Vijayadashami

prasu said...

Nice pics............

lubnakarim06 said...

Well organised post dear.....nice festive pics...

Shri said...

Great Pics, Rekha! and well explained!

Gita Jaishankar said...

Happy Vijayadasamai rekha :)

lata raja said...

You have taken us on a virtual tour thro' all these posts Rekha. Simply superb!

Vrinda said...

Belated Dasara wishes dear,hope u had a great time..

Anonymous said...

Lovely clicks of the festival Rekha...looks awesome. I love the festive season too much!!!

Rgds, Shobha

Abhilash said...

amme mahamaye...

It was extremely interesting to read about the celebration and deepotsavam(teepotsavam)...

I am very sad that I missed this article. My sleep is making troubles in my work schedule and I am not able to address all blogs neither comment on them or write on mine...

I slep today at 9 PM as was feeling too tired after the busy schedule... Got up at 11.30 Pm when my friends gave a ring at the door...

Jk was searching my blog if I placed his funny photos and discovered your comment...he called me, I saw the picture and though will read it tomorrow... but when I started reading I thought I should comment today...

This is almost a new information to me and thanks for sharing this with all the readers...

I never knew about such celebrations before...

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