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Ayudha Puja 2019: Date, significance and celebration of Astra Puja

The Ayudha Puja falls on the tenth day of the bright half of the moon’s cycle of 15 days in the month of September/October

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Ayudha Puja 2019: Date, significance and celebration of Astra Puja

Ayudha Puja is a part of the Navratri festival, a Hindu festival that is traditionally celebrated in India. It is also called “Astra Puja” or Saraswati Puja. It means “worship of instruments.”

The puja is celebrated in Tamil Nadu as Ayudha Pujai, in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh as Aayudha Pooja. In Kerala as Ayudha Puja, Astra Puja in Odisha, Shastra Puja or Ayudha Puja/Khande Navami in Maharashtra and in Karnataka as Ayudha Puje.

The festival falls on the tenth day of the bright half of the moon’s cycle of 15 days in the month of September/October and is popularly a part of Dussehra, Navratri or Durga Puja or Golu festival.

On the tenth day of the Dasara festival, weapons and tools are worshipped. In Karnataka, the celebration is for the killing of the demon king Mahishasura by the goddess Durga. After the slaying of the demon king, the weapons were kept out for worship.

While the Navaratri festival is observed all over the country but in South Indian states, where it is widely celebrated as Ayudha Puja, there are slight variations of worship procedure.

The principal Shakti goddesses worshiped during the Ayudha puja are Saraswati (the Goddess of wisdom, arts, and literature), Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth) and Parvati (the divine mother), apart from various types of equipment; it is on this occasion when weapons are worshipped by soldiers and tools are revered by artisans.

The Puja is considered a meaningful custom, which focuses specific attention to one’s profession and its related tools and connotes that a divine force is working behind it to perform well and for getting the proper reward.

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