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Kanya Pujan on Navratri: Significance, PKanya Pujan on Navratri: Significance, Puja Vidhi and Beliefsuja Vidhi and Beliefs

The tradition of Kumari Puja or Kanya Puja is also an important feature of Navratri. At the time of Puja, the girl is considered to be an avatar of Nava Durga on earth and worshipped. Kanya Pujan or Kumari Puja is performed with the belief that young girls are the replica of Goddess Durga. The devotees invite girls to homes and offer bhog. The belief is that Goddess Durga, who is worshipped in nine avatars during Navratri, is pleased by Kanya Pujan.

Kanya Pujan Significance

Kanya Pujan is a significant ritual of Navratri. According to Devi Bhagwat Purana, it is believed that worshipping girls on the ninth day of Navratri gives the real merit of prayers to the devotees. Those who serve a nine-day long fast are especially said to worship a girl child at the end of Navratri.

There is also a belief that worshipping one girl child blesses with good fortune, two girls bless with perception and Salvation while three girls give merit. Worshipping 4 and 5 girls blesses one with authority and knowledge, respectively while nine Kanya Puja is believed to bless with supremacy.

Kanya Pujan reasons

Our Bhagwat Puran say that every human has a God within but provided the human should have innocence and purity. Children are the purest form of human beings as they have no evil emotions instilled. It is believed that praying a human would get faster results than praying the God himself.

Story: Goddess Durga was incarnated as a young girl to defeat the demon Kalasura. Hence, the little girls are worshipped as they are believed to be the universal creative forces. Kanya Puja or Kanjak Puja is mainly performed on the eighth or ninth day of Navaratri where nine girls are worshipped as nine forms of Goddess Durga i.e. Navadurga.

Kanya Puja Vidhi

  • Wash the feet of the nine little girls
  • Then give clothes and gifts
  • The girls are made to sit on special pedestal
  • Perform aarti on them
  • Tilak, rice grains and vermilion put on them
  • Then they offered food and water. The meal mainly comprises chana, puri, and halwa, prepared in ghee.
  • Women devotees touch their feet with respect and give them gifts.
  • There is also a practice of giving clothes or money before sending them.

Names of Goddess represent Nine Girls

Kanya puja ritual is celebrated on the eighth and ninth day of Navratri. The nine names of the Goddesses; the nine girls represented as:-

  1. Kumarika
  2. Trimurti
  3. Kalyani
  4. Rohini
  5. Kali
  6. Chandika
  7. Shanbhavi
  8. Durga
  9. Subhadra

Date,Time and Muhurat of Kanya Puja

Kumari Puja  on Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Durgashtami on Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Ashtami Tithi Begins - 04:31 PM on Sep 29, 2025
Ashtami Tithi Ends - 06:06 PM on Sep 30, 2025

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