Festival of Karva Chauth
Karva Chauth:
Karva Chauth is a popular Hindu and Sikh festival generally performed in North India and parts of Pakistan. On this day married women fast for the whole day till moonrise for safety of their husbands. The festival falls on Chaturthi (fourth day after full moon) in month of Kartik according to the Hindu calendar. Married women fast for well being and long life of their husbands as well as unmarried women fast for their desired husbands. There are different rituals and stories added with this festival but one in all that it's religiously followed for the long life of husbands and whole day fasting ends with moonrise and worshipping the moon and praying for husbands. Even now a day's many males also started fasting for their loving wives and their well being.
History:
Eleven days before deepawali celebration the festival Karva Chauth is celebrated but its actual history is not known to anyone that how and when it started. There are different stories which are told on karva Chauth puja ceremonies. Actual history is not really known.
Story of Veeravati: veeravati was loving sister of seven brothers and on her first karva Chauth after marriage she was at her brother's place. The whole day she kept fasting but brother's couldn't see her hungry so they showed her fire on far mountains and made her believe that it was moon and after worshiping that she ended her fast but it was resulted with death of her husband and then for the whole year she kept fasting on every Chaturthi and finally on next karva Chauth she was blessed with her husband's life.
Story of Karva: another popular story of Karva Chauth is about Karva who was so devoted to her husband that her love and dedication towards her husband blessed her with spiritual power and one day while bathing in river a crocodile caught her husband but she bound crocodile with a yarn and asked yama either to send crocodile to hell or to b cursed. Yama scared of curse of a pativrata (devoted) wife sent crocodile to hell and blessed karva's husband with a long life.
Celebration:
On the day women keep fasting whole day. In Punjab there is a trend of eating sargi before sunrise but in other parts of Northern India it's not so. For the whole day female keep fasting for their husbands. In the evening women wear new clothes, jewellery and heena. Colony women all together perform puja and any of them tells the story of Karva Chauth. After the puja women worships moon and end their fast. The women gives water to each other with seven water sips they are asked that satisfied or not and they replies with water but not suhaag and in seventh sip they replies with water and suhaag both they are satisfied. It symbolizes asking for the same husband for seven lives. It's also a trend at few places that after moon husbands are worshiped and they end the fast of their wives with water.
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Karva Chauth is a popular Hindu and Sikh festival generally performed in North India and parts of Pakistan. On this day married women fast for the whole day till moonrise for safety of their husbands. The festival falls on Chaturthi (fourth day after full moon) in month of Kartik according to the Hindu calendar. Married women fast for well being and long life of their husbands as well as unmarried women fast for their desired husbands. There are different rituals and stories added with this festival but one in all that it's religiously followed for the long life of husbands and whole day fasting ends with moonrise and worshipping the moon and praying for husbands. Even now a day's many males also started fasting for their loving wives and their well being.
History:
Eleven days before deepawali celebration the festival Karva Chauth is celebrated but its actual history is not known to anyone that how and when it started. There are different stories which are told on karva Chauth puja ceremonies. Actual history is not really known.
Story of Veeravati: veeravati was loving sister of seven brothers and on her first karva Chauth after marriage she was at her brother's place. The whole day she kept fasting but brother's couldn't see her hungry so they showed her fire on far mountains and made her believe that it was moon and after worshiping that she ended her fast but it was resulted with death of her husband and then for the whole year she kept fasting on every Chaturthi and finally on next karva Chauth she was blessed with her husband's life.
Story of Karva: another popular story of Karva Chauth is about Karva who was so devoted to her husband that her love and dedication towards her husband blessed her with spiritual power and one day while bathing in river a crocodile caught her husband but she bound crocodile with a yarn and asked yama either to send crocodile to hell or to b cursed. Yama scared of curse of a pativrata (devoted) wife sent crocodile to hell and blessed karva's husband with a long life.
Celebration:
On the day women keep fasting whole day. In Punjab there is a trend of eating sargi before sunrise but in other parts of Northern India it's not so. For the whole day female keep fasting for their husbands. In the evening women wear new clothes, jewellery and heena. Colony women all together perform puja and any of them tells the story of Karva Chauth. After the puja women worships moon and end their fast. The women gives water to each other with seven water sips they are asked that satisfied or not and they replies with water but not suhaag and in seventh sip they replies with water and suhaag both they are satisfied. It symbolizes asking for the same husband for seven lives. It's also a trend at few places that after moon husbands are worshiped and they end the fast of their wives with water.
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