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Festival story · 3 tellings · contested

Vishvakarma Puja and the builders' communities

How and when Vishvakarma is worshipped: the solar date in Bengal and the east, the day after Diwali elsewhere, and the craft communities who trace themselves to his five sons.

Vishvakarma

East India North India South India