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Mantra
Tradition-specific
- Gender
- female
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Hindu / Shakta / Bengali - Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal (22.5726°N, 88.3639°E) Kolkata Durgā Pūjā — added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2021 — is the world's largest urban religious festival. 3,500+ pandals (themed public-art-cum-shrine installations) are erected across Kolkata for 5 days in Ashvina (Sept-Oct). Themes range from classical to political to pop-culture. Crowds: 10 million. The ritual itself (invocation of Durga on Mahālaya to Immersion at Dashami) is the underlying
Wisdom Graph: Divine Associations
MantraTradition-specific
Sources & provenance
📜 1 Primary🎓 3 Scholarly📖 1 Tertiary
- 🎓Scholarly sourceBookDavid Kinsley. Hindu Goddesses (1986)Comprehensive study of Hindu goddess traditions
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