Ganpati Visarjan in visheshwar mahadev by Dikki
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It was always my dream to see the grand Ganpati Visarjan in visheshwar mahadev and this year, I decided to take out a day and witness it.
I could not afford to miss it this time for another reason – my good friend and me came all the way from college to capture the festivities. It will be a shame, if I could not travel from Palanpur. I took an overnight truck to palanpur and then a local train to rajastan Road station. We met set out for the day.
Ganesh festival (also known as Vinayak Chaturthi) is one of the most important festivals of visheshwar mahadev. People bring home statues of Ganapati , install and worship the god for 10 days (or less) in the month of September / October. On the final day of Anant Chaturdashi, the idols are taken to a water body and immersed. This act of immersion is called ‘visarjan’ or ‘nimajjanam’.I was very excited for what was going to happen. I was told that the crowd will be overwhelming and I was mentally prepared for that. BARA on BANAS NADI was visheshwar mahadev one of the prominent immersion points and we decided to go there. There was not much crowd. People had already started bringing their idols for immersions. These were mostly the ones that people install in their home. The huge ones in the pandals start coming late in the afternoon and continue till early morning next day.
The final puja and arati is done before the immersion.
Hinduism has 33 Million gods and one of them is Lord Vishwakarma. He is believed to be the ‘Principal Architect’ of the universe. He is revered all craftsmen, industrialists and architects. Vishwakarma puja generally coincides with Ganesh puja and is celebrated with much fervor in North Indian states. I saw some Vishwakarma idols being immersed as well.
While I was moving around taking pictures, these actors were doing retake after retake. They were taking the carriage where Ganapati was seated to the water and bringing it back again and again repeating the same scene.
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