A Beautiful Tradition – Karwa Chauth

Karwa Chauth is a stunning traditional pageant celebrated with the aid of Hindu ladies within the Indian subcontinent. The celebration is held on the Chaturthi of Kartika month i.e., the fourth day of dark fortnight of the Kartika month.

In India, especially in Northern India, the Karwa Chauth is an important festival for all the married women. From sunrise till moonrise married women keeps a fast for the safety of their husband. Dotting wives keep an all-day fast within eating and drinking to perform all the rituals of Karwa Chauth with much love and respect in their head and heart for their husbands. They consume food once their husband feeds them after the moon comes out and all the rituals are performed.

Wives prepare for the occasion from days ahead. They buy ‘sajsringar’ or adornments including jewellery and apparel, essentials for puja, henna, etc. Local bazaars are flooded with items used for the rituals.

Why We Celebrate Karwa Chauth?

The festival is most prominentin the North and North Western regions of our country. A huge population of the male population of these regions earlier were the soldiers of the Indian Army and officials of the Military Forces. It is believed by some that women of these regions started fasting in order to pray for their husband’s lives these armed forces, policemen, soldiers, and military personnel who protected the nation from foreign attack were respected and tributed by their wives. The wives used to pray to the god for the longevity of their men. The time of this competition coincides with the initiation of the Rabi cropping season that is the wheat sowing season in those regions. The women of the families fill the earthen pot also called Karwa with wheat grains and offer to the God also praying for a great Rabi season.

The Story of Karwa: There was a woman named Karwa. She was deeply in love with her husband and this intense love endowed her with lots of spiritual powers. Once her husband was bathing in a river.He was when he was attacked by a crocodile. Now the courageous Karwa bound the crocodile with cotton yarn.She remembered Yama, the Lord of death. Yama was afraid of being cursed by such a devoted wife and thus he sent the crocodile to hell and gave back life to her husband. It is also believed that Karwa Chauth is celebrated to pay tribute to courageous Karwa and her devotion.

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