Bhubaneswar, Jan. 22 -- Saraswati Puja is celebrated on Basant Panchami when students across the state and place their books before the goddess and step away from learning for an entire day in reverence to the goddess.

Saraswati is the divine embodiment of knowledge, music, and the arts. This ritualized abstention carries a message that resonates through Odisha.

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According to Hindu cosmological tradition,on Magha Shukla Panchami which is the fifth day of the bright fortnight in the lunar month of Magha, commonly known as Basant Panchami, marks the moment when Lord Brahma, the creator deity, manifested Goddess Saraswati through his divine powers. Her emergen...