Kolkata, Sept 27: The Durga Puja spirit picked up on Wednesday which marked Maha Saptami — day two of the Puja — as attired in their best people visited puja marquees to pray to the Goddess and participate in the festivities across West Bengal. The day started off with morning prayers, as the rituals commenced with “Pran Pratistha” where the deity was symbolically endowed with life and invoked in a group of nine plants bunched together — the vapatrika.