Saraswati Puja celebrated in Barisal

Saraswati Puja, the worshiping Devi Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge according to the Hinduism, was celebrated across the district as elsewhere in the country on Monday.

The Puja is celebrated every year on 'Vasant Panchami', the birth-day of Goddess Saraswati and fifth day of the bright fortnight of the month of Magh.

Hindu devotees, especially students and youths, celebrated the Saraswati Puja in different educational institutions and temples and houses setting up colorful mandaps and placing the idol of the goddess with different types of sweet meets, fruits and other items and articles of handicrafts.

On this occasion most of the educational institutions of the city constructing Puja Mandap placed the books and educational items on the foot of the idol of Saraswati to get her blessing in educational life.

Religious rituals, special prayer, aroti, discussion meeting, cultural functions also held on this occasion. Prices and demands of sweet meats, sweet curds and fruits especially sugar cane and jujube also increased on this occasion.

Saraswati, derived from the lost Vedic River Saraswati, one of the major water causeways in northwest India navigable in the third and fourth millennium BC and the source of her profound connection to fluidity in any aspect (water, speech, thought, etc.).

-Masuk Kamal, Barisal