Shakta Rash

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Śāktô Rāsa
Dumureshwari Mata in Nabadwip Rash Jatra
Also called	Pot Purnima, Rash-Kali Puja, Rash Jatra
Observed by	Bengali Shakta Hindu
Type	Bengali Shakta Hindu
Celebrations	Puja, Balidaan (Animal Sacrifice) in some places, the immersion of idols
Observances	To make idols of gods and goddesses with clay and to pay obeisances and worship Shakti in Kartik Purnima
Begins	Beginning with Pot Puja and actual festivities start after Durga Puja and Lakshmi Puja
Ends	After Rash Purnima or Kartik Purnima with celebrating immersion named Arong[1]
Date	30 November (2020) 19 November (2021) according to Traditional Bengali Hindu Calendar

Shakto Raas (Śākta Rāsa, Shaakta Raash, Shaakta Raasa or Shaakto Raas; Bengali: শাক্তরাস) is the most celebrated festival of Nabadwip, Shantipur and Krishnanagar of Nadia district in West Bengal, India. This festival is celebrated thirty-five days after the autumnal Durga Puja celebration, fifteen days after Kali Puja and a week after Jagaddhatri Puja in Kartik Purnima. To the people of Nabadwip, Rash Festival is everything. The entire Hindu community eagerly waits for this festival all the year round.^[1]

The main features of Shakta Ras are to make large clay idols (murtis) to worship Shakti. Every idol has an artistic design, a variety of imagination, religious discourse, and deep understanding of the scholars, which help entertain innumerable people.^[2] Cartoonist Chandi Lahiri said that the large scale of the clay idols differs from any other festivals, because the idols from Nabadwip and Dainhat are shapely and symmetric despite their light weight and enormous proportions.