Navratri Festival Images: Free Stock Photos of Hindu Festival Navratri

Folk dancers perform during the full dress rehearsal on the eve of Vibrant Navratri Mahotsav at the GMDC ground, late on September 30, 2016. Folk dancers from across India are participating in the Vibrant Navratri Mahotsav as the Hindu Navratri — the Dance Festival of Nine Nights — begins on October 1, 2016.

Indian folk dancers perform during the full dress rehearsal on the eve of Vibrant Navratri Mahotsav at the GMDC ground, late September 30, 2016.

Folk dancers perform during the full dress rehearsal on the eve of Vibrant Navratri Mahotsav at the GMDC ground, late September 30, 2016. Folk dancers from across India are participating in the Vibrant Navratri Mahotsav as the Hindu Navratri – the Dance Festival of Nine Nights – begins on October 1, 2016.

A child devotee offering prayer during the three-day Chadhi Yatra ahead of Navratra festival, at Parmandal, about 25 km from Jammu

A girl looks on as she sticks a coin on the wall of a temple on the first day of Navratri festival in Jammu

Chaitra Navaratri, nine-day Hindu festival is celebrated in honour of Goddess Durga

Devotees offer prayers inside the historical Kali Mata Temple on the first day of the Navratri festival in Jammu

Durga Puja and Ram Lila form significant parts of the Chaitra Navaratri celebrations

During these nine days, devotees fast and observe strict adherence to religious discipline

Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers for the Navratri Festival at the Mata Longa Wali Devi temple in Amritsar. As people observe fasting and meditation during these nine days, they also maintain a generally positive, calm and peaceful demeanour, aided by the strictly vegetarian diet followed these nine days