The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community and a few small ethnic groups, will end on Sunday with immersion of the idols of Goddess Durga and her children in water bodies across the country amid festivity, reports Samakal.
The idols of goddess Durga and her offspring - Ganesha, Kartik, Laxmi and Saraswati - will be immersed in the evening while devotees will receive Shantijol (sacred water from where deities are immersed).
Before the immersion of the idols, the mother deity Durga will be bid farewell by Darpan Bisharjan in the morning.
Amid tight security, idols of puja mandaps in the city and its outskirts will be immersed in the Buriganga and the Turag rivers and Waisghat.
Marking Bijaya Dashami, a colorful procession will be brought out from the Dhakeshwari National Temple before immersion of idols, which will parade different streets of the capita and end at Sadarghat.
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