This festival honors the Goddess Shakti and three of her most popular avatars: Durga, the warrior Goddess, Lakshmi, the Goddess of prosperity, and Saraswati, the Goddess of knowledge. They are all worshipped during this nine-nights festival, which begins on the first day of the month of Chaitra and ends with Ramanavami.
Goddess Shakti is also honored in the other nine-nights Navratri festival celebrated in September or October. Since the festival dates are determined according to the lunar calendar, the length of the festival may vary from year to year.


























