
India celebrated Maha Ashtami on September 30, 2025, with grand devotion and festive spirit. Navratri reached its peak as devotees performed sacred rituals, including Kanya Pujan, to honour Goddess Durga’s divine energy. Families decorated temples and homes with flowers, diyas, and rangoli to mark the occasion.
Digital platforms also played a role in this year’s celebrations as many people shared wishes using festive art, animated stickers, and greeting cards.
Devotees across Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and other major cities came together for prayers, singing bhajans, and distributing prasad, adding joy and spirituality to the Maha Ashtami observance.
This year, many devotees turned to digital creativity to share blessings during Maha Ashtami and Navratri. People used AI-powered tools to design colourful WhatsApp stickers, posters, and greeting cards for friends and family. Popular designs included Kanya Pujan blessings with nine little girls in traditional attire, Maa Durga’s glowing artwork, and vibrant garba dance scenes. Devotees also created festive thali stickers and greeting cards showing the nine forms of Durga. These designs helped families send warm wishes instantly, spreading the festive spirit on social media and messaging platforms, making technology a meaningful part of the sacred celebration.
Kanya Pujan, also known as Kumari Puja or Kanjak Puja, holds an important place during Durga Ashtami and Navami. Devotees honour young girls as divine symbols of Goddess Durga and perform rituals with deep devotion. The practice represents feminine energy, purity, and the blessings of Shakti.
Traditionally, girls between two and ten years take part in the ritual, and each age reflects a different form of the Goddess, such as Kumari, Kali, or Chandika. Believers perform this puja to invite prosperity, happiness, and protection into their homes. The ritual continues to hold cultural and spiritual significance across India.
Families performed Kanya Puja on Maha Ashtami with devotion and traditional customs. The puja area was cleaned, decorated with flowers, incense, and turmeric before welcoming young girls. Devotees washed their feet, applied tilak, and offered them prasad consisting of puri, chana, and halwa.
Many families also presented small gifts as a token of respect. The ritual highlighted the sanctity of worshipping the Goddess in her child form. In several cities, temples organised collective Kanya Pujan ceremonies, where hundreds of devotees participated and offered prayers, reflecting the unity and shared devotion of the festival across different regions.
According to Drik Panchang, the Durga Ashtami tithi in 2025 started on September 29 at 4:31 PM and ended on September 30 at 6:06 PM.
Devotees observed this period as the most auspicious time to perform Kumari Puja and seek divine blessings. Across India, temples and homes witnessed large gatherings for chanting mantras, offering flowers, and lighting diyas. Religious leaders encouraged devotees to use this sacred time for meditation and prayers to Goddess Durga. The celebration marked one of the most significant moments of Navratri, combining devotion, rituals, and cultural traditions in a grand spiritual environment.
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