Dancers perform during Durga Puja carnival in Agartala, the capital city of Tripura, northeastern India, on Oct. 7, 2022. (Str/Xinhua)
AGARTALA, India, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Durga Puja is an annual Hindu festival originating in India which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga. The festival ends on the day when devotees embark on a procession carrying the worshipped clay sculpture idols to a river, or other water body, and immerse them, symbolic of her return to the divine cosmos and her marital home.
Artists perform during Durga Puja carnival in Agartala, the capital city of northeastern state of Tripura, India, on Oct. 7, 2022. (Str/Xinhua)
Artists perform during Durga Puja carnival in Agartala, the capital city of northeastern state of Tripura, India, on Oct. 7, 2022. (Str/Xinhua)
An idol of Goddess Durga is being immersed in a water body at the end of the nine-day Hindu festival Durga Puja in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state, India, on Oct. 6, 2022. (Str/Xinhua)
Artists perform during Durga Puja carnival in Agartala, the capital city of northeastern state of Tripura, India, on Oct. 7, 2022. (Str/Xinhua)
An idol of Goddess Durga is being immersed in a water body at the end of the nine-day Hindu festival Durga Puja in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state, India, on Oct. 6, 2022. (Str/Xinhua)
An idol of Goddess Kali is being lifted by a crane for immersion in a water body at the end of Hindu festival Durga Puja in Bhopal, India, on Oct. 6, 2022. (Str/Xinhua) ■
