#🙏ମାଣବସା ଶେଷ ଗୁରୁବାର🪔🪷 #🌷ଜୟ ମା ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ👣 Manabasa Gurubar is celebrated to honor Goddess Lakshmi, the deity of wealth and prosperity, during every Thursday of the Odia month of Margasira. The festival is based on the Lakshmi Purana, which narrates an episode where Lakshmi defied social norms to visit a low-caste woman, emphasizing themes of equality, social justice, and female empowerment. Families celebrate by cleaning their homes, adorning them with decorative jhoti (rice paste designs), and performing a puja with a bamboo pot filled with harvested paddy as a symbol of the goddess’s presence.