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The word gajan in Bengali comes from the word garjan or roar that sannyasis (hermits} emit during the festivities.Alternatively, the word gajan is considered a combination of parts of two words - ga is from the word gram meaning village & jan is from the word meaning folk, I In this sense gajan is a festival of village folk. .Generally during dis festival people do make up like different hindu God n Goddesses and enact mythological plays