Durga Visarjan is celebrated on the last day of Navratri and the devotees bid farewell to Maa Durga. On this day, Goddess Durga is worshipped and offered many things as she is prepared to leave.
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Highly enthusiastic devotees gather in large numbers to join the procession that carries the Goddess to the ghats to be immersed in water. Women, especially married woman initiate the procession by first applying red sindoor or vermillion powder on the Goddess and then to each other. Durga Visarjan marks the culmination of the 10-day long Navratri festival, which involves invoking Maa Durga and her manifestations with a ritual of intense praying and rigorous fasting for her blessings.
