DETAILED NOTES ON DURGA

 55–59. ^ Kinsley 1988, p. 111, Estimate: "Durga Puja is celebrated from the 1st from the ninth times of the brilliant 50 % of the lunar month of Asvin, which coincides with the autumn harvest in North India, and in certain respects it is evident that Durga Puja is usually a harvest Competition wherein Durga is propitiated as the strength of pl