JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA, March 30, 2009: According to official sources, around 60,000 devotees from all over India visited the holy shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi to seek the blessings of the Divine Mother in her three manifestations during the first two days of the Chaitra Navratras that started on March 27. The shrine board has provided better facilities to the devotees and made better arrangements especially for the Navratras. And devotees can easily buy traditional goods from temporary stalls set up near the temples.
Chaitra Navratri starts the 1st day of the month of Chaitra. It is most famous in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and in other parts of North India. Chaitra Navratra is known by different names like Ram Navratri, Vasant Navratri, Basant Navrathri and some people also refer it as Spring Navaratras.