Durga Ashtami 2024: Date, Time, Puja Rituals, and Significance of Maha Ashtami
Maha Ashtami or Durga Ashtami will be on October 11, 2024 on Ashtami Tithi of Shukla Paksha in Ashwina month.

Durga Ashtami 2024
Durga Ashtami 2024: Maha Ashtami or Durga Ashtami will be on October 11, 2024 on Ashtami Tithi of Shukla Paksha in Ashwina month. This eighth day of Navratri is dedicated to Maha Gauri, where devotees perform various pujas to seek her blessings.
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Maha Ashtami 2024: Importance of the day
Eighth day of Navratri is Maa Maha Gauri and devotees worship the Goddess through Kanya Pujan, hawan, reciting Durga Saptashati and Durga mantras. This day is very important in Hinduism as it is the day when Maa Durga killed Mahishasur, symbolizing victory of good over evil. During these nine days of celebration communities come together to showcase their religious heritage and devotion. Many people fast on this day and do special pujas.
Maha Ashtami 2024: Date and time
- Ashtami Tithi Begins - October 10, 2024 at 12:31 PM
- Ashtami Tithi Ends - October 11, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Maha Ashtami 2024: Special colour of the day?
Maa Maha Gauri is associated with pink color. Devotees wear pink clothes and offer pink clothes and flowers to the Goddess to seek her blessings.
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Kanyan Puja 2024:
On Maha Ashtami day, devotees prepare special food like halwa, chana and poori and invite young girls (5, 7 and 9 years old) to participate in the celebrations. They feed these girls and give them stationery, utensils, clothes or toys and dakshina. By touching the feet of the girls, devotees seek their blessings as these girls are the manifestation of the Goddess. Also people distribute food, clothes and other essentials to needy and underprivileged girls.
Maha Ashtami 2024: Step-by-step guide for puja rituals
- Get up early in the morning and take a bath before starting the puja.
- Devotees start by worshiping Maa Gauri, light a diya with desi ghee and break a coconut and then invite the girls to their homes.
- Women prepare sattvik halwa, chana and poori as bhog prasad and offer it to the Goddess first.
- Then they invite the girls and do Kanya Pujan and give them prasad and gifts and dakshina.
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