Durga Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Other cultures=== In [[Bangladesh]], the four-day-long [[Durga Puja|Sharadiya Durga Puja]] is the most important religious festival for the Hindus and celebrated across the country with ''Vijayadashami'' being a national holiday. In Sri Lanka, Durga in the form of Vaishnavi, bearing Vishnu's iconographic symbolism is celebrated. This tradition has been continued by Sri Lankan diaspora.<ref>{{cite book|author=Joanne Punzo Waghorne|title=Diaspora of the Gods: Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBLFbfUrsDIC&pg=PA222|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-803557-2|pages=222β224|access-date=15 February 2017|archive-date=17 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217115304/https://books.google.com/books?id=QBLFbfUrsDIC&pg=PA222|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page