Best Wishes on Vijaydashmi Dushhara दश-हरा ( and not Dussehra )
My Dear Young and Little Indians, आप सभी को दशहरा ( विजय दशमी ) की शुभकामनाएं I purposefully greeted you in Hindi. The objective was to write/ pronounce the name of our festival correctly. Its is दश-हरा and not दश-हIरा In English both these names are written as Dush-hara. In English people write and pronounce it as Dussehra/ Dussera also. Let us write and pronounce our names correctly. Indian names have a science, logic and history. Some of us believe that this festival is called Dush-hara because Ravan had ten heads and he was defeated on this day. But this is a wrong understanding. दश means TEN...... Today the date/ तिथि as per Vikram Samvat Panchang is दशमी Month - आश्विन Fortnight - शुक्ल Date/ तिथि - दस or दशमी And it is हरा not हारा हारा means Defeated Shri Ram killed Ravan NOT to defeat him. He killed Ravan because he wanted to relieve Ravan of a curse. हरा or हरना means to take-away and relieve someone of pain/ curse etc. What was the curse ? What is the history of Vijaydash