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| Can someone help me out here? How does this article relate to the one on Durga puja?--] (]) 11:27, 16 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
| ==Revamp of Article== | |||
| I have started a revamp of the article. | |||
| The Contents could be | |||
| 1. Significance of Navaratri or Navaratra. | |||
| 2. Different kind of Navaratri. | |||
| 3. Common worship in temples. | |||
| Sharad Navaratri | |||
| Celebration in different states. | |||
| As it is celebrated in different styles in different states, details state by state. | |||
| Vasanta Navaratri | |||
| Celebration in different states. | |||
| As it is celebrated in different styles in different states, details state by state. | |||
| Ashada Navaratri. | |||
| If we can agree on a common content, then the celebrations state by state could be added by members who have knowledge of the same with sources. | |||
| Most of the sources have to be necessarily different web sites, as there is hardly any book on this. | |||
| So let us set the ball rolling. | |||
| Thank you. | |||
| --] 07:04, 22 October 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ==Weak Article== | |||
| == Two Navratris? == | |||
| Navratri is celebrated differently in various part of India and Nepal. Navratras are observed twice a year, once in Chaitra (Vasant Navratri), preceding Rama Navami, and then in Ashvin (September - October) preceding Dussehra. The nine-day Navratra commences with the new moon of Ashvin and terminates with Mahanavami, on the ninth lunar day of the bright half of the month. During these nine days, devotees keep strict fast and Durga is worshipped. The style of observing Navratra in different parts of the country may be different, but its sole aim is to propitiate Mother Durga and to seek her blessings. | |||
| The festival of Navratri (nav = nine and ratri = nights) lasts for 9 days with three days each devoted to worship of Maa Durga, the Goddess of Valor, Ma Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth and Maa Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge. During the nine days of Navratri, feasting and fasting take precedence over all normal daily activities amongst the Hindus. Evenings give rise to the religious dances in order to worhip Goddess Durga Maa. The day after Navratri i.e. the 10th day after Ashwina, is Dussera which celebrates the victory of lord Rama over Ravana. Ravana is burnt in effigy, often giant dummies of Ravana stuffed with fireworks are shot with arrows until they blow up before a large, applauding audience. | |||
| ] 13:28, 26 March 2007 (UTC)Parmod Chhabra] 13:28, 26 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| I am unaware of there being two Navratris; can anyone confirm the March Navratri and its origin? ] 13:32, 9 February 2006 (UTC) | |||
| Yes, Navatri is observed twice a year, once in the month of Chaitra and then in Aswayuja. It lasts for nine days in honour of the nine manifestations of Durga. During Navaratri (the word literally means "nine nights") devotees of Durga observe a fast. Brahmins are fed and prayers are offered for the protection of health and property. | |||
| The beginning of summer and the beginning of winter are two very important junctions of climatic and solar influence. These two periods are taken as sacred opportunities for the worship of the Divine Mother. They are indicated respectively by the Rama-Navaratri in Chaitra (April-May) and the Durga Navaratri in Aswayuja (September-October). The bodies and minds of people undergo a considerable change on account of the changes in Nature. Sri Rama is worshipped during Ramnavmi, and Mother Durga during Navaratri. | |||
| : Thanks! ] 13:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC) | |||
| :::Are you South Indian? As I know a number of Hindu South Indians that only observe celebration of the Navaratras in October. ''']''' ] 07:33, 29 March 2006 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Gujarati, actually. And we only have a Navratri celebration (with Garba) around October (for nine nights before Dusshera). ] 14:25, 29 March 2006 (UTC) | |||
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| It appears to be an incomplete sentence to me. I think it needs clarification. | It appears to be an incomplete sentence to me. I think it needs clarification. | ||
| == Cleaning up == | |||
| ==Dussera and Navratri are different== | |||
| These are two different festivals. ] 09:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
| They both have different reasons behid celebration, but bacause to dates of Hindu Calendar they are celebrates on same date (thithi). It's good two have in two section. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 15:31, 12 October 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | |||
| ==Serious Edits & Cleanups== | |||
| I believe a real edit and cleanup is needed for this wiki page. currently it seems very less informative | |||
| and Dussera and Navaratri is confirmed to diffrent festive this are no longer disputable can the merge tag removed ?--]<span style="font-size: small; vertical-align: super">] 06:05, 12 October 2007 (UTC) | |||
| Wow, the last comment was posted 7 years ago. I think there needs a clean-up and edit too. Sounds like this article was just copy-pasted without editing for context. For example, as a non-Hindu I have no idea what this sentence means: "A whole chapter in the tenth mandal of the Rigveda addresses the devotional sadhanas of Shakti." What's a mandal? What's the Rigveda? What's a sadhana? Who's Shakti? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 03:02, 2 October 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | |||
| ==Traditions of Navaratri== | |||
| I have written about the different Navaratris. This is not OR. A google search of the different names will confirm this. Thanks.--] 14:13, 18 October 2007 (UTC) | |||
| ==Title of the article== | |||
| Why is it redirected NAVARATHRI? This is how it would be translated in south Indian language, but the real English spelling would be, Navaratri, wouldn't it? ] (]) 15:37, 8 October 2009 (UTC) | |||
| I noticed that a lot of room for improvement on this page, especially grammatically and stylistically. I'm going to be spending some time researching and editing the article to polish it up. Feel free to help if you want! ] (]) 06:09, 8 July 2021 (UTC) | |||
| == Clean up needed; Navratri outside of India == | |||
| == Spelling issue on Navaratri == | |||
| First, I'll say that this article badly needs attention in regards to writing and the proper use of English grammar and Misplaced Pages-appropriate prose (e.g. "north india" in introduction needs to be "North India"; The Sharad Navaratri section ends with a sentence on the dates of Navaratri (Is it Navaratri or Navarathri or Navratri? The article is not clear) and ends with a random "6.15 am." What does that even mean? Also, the stories present in the section Vasanta Navarati lack citations (another problem with this article, a lack of well-sourced information). | |||
| Well the original and commonly used spelling is Navratri which translates from नवरात्री | |||
| But beyond that, I would also be interested in why this seems to lack any reference to the Navarati celebrations outside of India; I live in the United States and celebrations are widespread here (as, I would imagine, in other parts of the world). Why not mention that? This article seems to lack a worldview. | |||
| But maybe in English this is written as Navaratri only and also Navadurga which is actually Navdurga. | |||
| ] (]) 00:00, 22 October 2012 (UTC) | |||
| I have seen here is quote cited next to Navaratri (in bold) about 'also spelled as' but being "Navratri" being excessively used everywhere especially in hashtags all across social media. So I want to mention "Navratri" also next to Navaratri. Like this Navaratri or Navratri/Navaratri or notably known or spelled as Navratri. | |||
| ==Dasara / Dussehra== | |||
| ] (]) 16:01, 3 May 2022 (UTC) | |||
| In the first paragraph, Dasara is referenced without explaining what it is or how it's relevant. Of course, it's an alternate spelling of the Dussehra mentioned in the previous sentence. But that needs to be explained. I've added an "also spelled Dasara" so the reader won't be confused. ] (]) 01:29, 15 December 2013 (UTC) | |||
| : The spelling used is the correct transliteration of the Devanagari name (though your ending of long ''i'' is wrong). That is how the ] spell it.<ref name="SimmonsSenRodrigues2018">{{cite book | author1 = Caleb Simmons | author2 = Moumita Sen | author3 = Hillary Rodrigues | date = 11 July 2018 | title = Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia | publisher = SUNY Press | pages = | isbn = 978-1-4384-7071-9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UENmDwAAQBAJ}}</ref> -- ] (]) 10:25, 4 May 2022 (UTC) | |||
| == Its name in Sanskrit language == | |||
| {{reflist-talk}} | |||
| I doubt its name, at least in Sanskrit is not "Navratri" but "Navratra". Of course it is a festival of nine nights and "ratri" (feminine gender) is sanskrit word for Night, but the "duration of nine nights" is "Navratra" (in masculine gender). Can anybody help?--]'''<sup><small>]</small></sup> 04:31, 25 May 2015 (UTC) | |||
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| == Animal sacrifice == | |||
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| Jonathansammy: A publication from 1871 are not HISTRS, and undue. Further, the size of section on animal sacrifice needs to be measured against its relative size with other sections. If you read the sources, animal sacrifice is a relatively minor practice. It is present, and should be mentioned. But, it is rare among Hindu traditions such as Vaishnavas who observe Navratri. Balance is important for NPOV. Therefore I have trimmed that section. ] (]) 21:14, 12 June 2017 (UTC) | |||
| ::Ms Welch, do you statistics on what sect is dominant in Hinduism ? Given the total size of the article, the animal sacrifice section is rather small.We can take the 1871 reference out.The sacrifice at Bhavani temple and Bimla devi at the Jagannath temple should be restored.These are from reliable sources.We can work on it to reduce the size but you can not totally remove their inclusion.Thanks.] (]) 21:33, 12 June 2017 (UTC) | |||
| == 2024 date? == | |||
| :::According to , Shaktism demographics represents less than 4% of Hinduism. I have already added a note about the rarity of animal sacrifice, with page numbers from the Fuller source. Frankly, I am disappointed with both sides... those who delete that section to pretend it doesn't exist, and those who restore the badly written POV-y content who cherry pick content from Fuller-like sources but ignore the sentences that the animal sacrifice practice is rare. ] (]) 22:25, 12 June 2017 (UTC) | |||
| is that correct? many other sources list 3 October as the start ] (]) 01:37, 15 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Ms Welch,It all depends on ones definition of Shakt. Most Hindu communities have a Goddess as their Kuldevata. Does that make them Shakta ? Not really because at the same time they would be worshippers of Vishnu and his avatars.That is the flexibility of worship in Hinduism and one should not try to pigeon hole people into Vaishnav, Shakta , Shaivite etc. | |||
| Yes, animal sacrifice is going down in numbers but it is there in contemporary Hindu society and therefore it should be mentioned in the article.Thanks for your help.] (]) 13:28, 13 June 2017 (UTC) | |||
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Sentence needs clarification
Under Garbha, I do not understand exactly what is meant by this sentence:
A Hindu religious, traditional festival of goddess of power — Amba or Durga for the first nine nights of the month Ashwin of the Vikram year.
It appears to be an incomplete sentence to me. I think it needs clarification.
Cleaning up
I noticed that a lot of room for improvement on this page, especially grammatically and stylistically. I'm going to be spending some time researching and editing the article to polish it up. Feel free to help if you want! Raps19 (talk) 06:09, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
Spelling issue on Navaratri
Well the original and commonly used spelling is Navratri which translates from नवरात्री
But maybe in English this is written as Navaratri only and also Navadurga which is actually Navdurga.
I have seen here is quote cited next to Navaratri (in bold) about 'also spelled as' but being "Navratri" being excessively used everywhere especially in hashtags all across social media. So I want to mention "Navratri" also next to Navaratri. Like this Navaratri or Navratri/Navaratri or notably known or spelled as Navratri.
Keshavv1234 (talk) 16:01, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- The spelling used is the correct transliteration of the Devanagari name (though your ending of long i is wrong). That is how the WP:RS spell it. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:25, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
References
- Caleb Simmons; Moumita Sen; Hillary Rodrigues (11 July 2018). Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-7071-9.
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2024 date?
is that correct? many other sources list 3 October as the start Mpesce (talk) 01:37, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
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