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Idols of Goddess Durga for sale at a roadside shop ahead of Navratri Durga Puja festival in Beawar. The ten-day long Hindu festival Navratri begins on September 26. Devotees install clay idols at their home to worship Durga during this period. Durga is a major Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi. She is associated with protection, strength, motherhood, destruction and wars. Durga is seen as a motherly figure and often depicted as a beautiful woman, riding a lion or tiger, with many arms each carrying a weapon and often defeating demons.