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Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

| | Oct 12, 2015, at 06:21 pm
Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

People performing 'Tarpan', a Hindu ritual of offering water to ancestors at the Ganga on the auspicious occasion of 'Mahalaya,' which marks the beginning of 'Debipaksha' or the day the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to earth. Images by Shubhodeep Sardar/IBNS

Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

People performing 'Tarpan', a Hindu ritual of offering water to ancestors at the Ganga on the auspicious occasion of 'Mahalaya,' which marks the beginning of 'Debipaksha' or the day the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to earth. Images by Shubhodeep Sardar/IBNS

Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

People performing 'Tarpan', a Hindu ritual of offering water to ancestors at the Ganga on the auspicious occasion of 'Mahalaya,' which marks the beginning of 'Debipaksha' or the day the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to earth. Images by Shubhodeep Sardar/IBNS

Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

People performing 'Tarpan', a Hindu ritual of offering water to ancestors at the Ganga on the auspicious occasion of 'Mahalaya,' which marks the beginning of 'Debipaksha' or the day the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to earth. Images by Shubhodeep Sardar/IBNS

Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

People performing 'Tarpan', a Hindu ritual of offering water to ancestors at the Ganga on the auspicious occasion of 'Mahalaya,' which marks the beginning of 'Debipaksha' or the day the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to earth. Images by Shubhodeep Sardar/IBNS

Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

People performing 'Tarpan', a Hindu ritual of offering water to ancestors at the Ganga on the auspicious occasion of 'Mahalaya,' which marks the beginning of 'Debipaksha' or the day the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to earth. Images by Shubhodeep Sardar/IBNS

Mahalaya ushers in Durga Puja countdown

People performing 'Tarpan', a Hindu ritual of offering water to ancestors at the Ganga on the auspicious occasion of 'Mahalaya,' which marks the beginning of 'Debipaksha' or the day the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to earth. Images by Shubhodeep Sardar/IBNS

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