TIWN Oct 17, 2018
AGARTALA, Oct 17 (TIWN): Devotion, prayers, and dedication marked the beginning of the auspicious occasion of Maha-Ashtami at Durga Bari.
Durga Puja is the biggest festival in the Eastern part of India when lakhs of people take on the streets to see the Durga idols and marquees.
In Tripura many puja’s have been organised with diverse themes, lightings and decorations wooing the people.
However, The idol of Goddess Durga of Durga Bari temple is widely known among people for its distinctive structure of the Goddess Durga with only two hands at her back.
The idol is distinctive because, mythology says that Goddess Durga won over the evil buffalo demon Mahisasura with ten hands. The puja started nearly 200 years ago by King Radha Kishore Manikya Bahadur in the Durgabari premises.
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