Karva Chauth 2017

Puja Muhurat Timings
Karwa Chauth Puja Muhurat Time – 18:16 P.M. to 19:30 P.M.
Moonrise Time on Karwa Chauth Day– 20:40 P.M.

This year Karva Chauth will be celebrated on 8th of October that is coming this Sunday. This festival comes during the Krishna Paksha Chaturthi in the Kartik month according to the Hindu calendar. This festival is especially celebrated by married women during whom they have a “NirJala fast” for the long life and safety of their husbands. Also, all unmarried girls can have this fast to for their prospective groom.
History and Its Significance

On this very auspicious day, married women have a fast called Nirjala Vrat to pray for a long life of their husbands. This festival have famous storey of married women who brings her husband back from the dead. This is how the whole story goes, there is a queen named Veeravati. She was the only sister of his seven brothers and was the most loved person in their family. She was married off at very young age and her first karva Chauth was celebrated at her parent’s home. She Began a Nirjala Vrat for the husband and waited till moon appears. After seeing her full of thirst and hunger, her brothers could not see her like this and created a mirror in the pipal tree and made it look like a moon has risen. Veeravati thinks that moon and risen and broken her fast and when she eats first bite of food, a message was arrived for her that her husband was dead. She then prays to god to observe her again so that she can again have a Karva Chauth fast with full dedication to see her husband alive again. Hence, she makes fast again with full devotion and bring her husband back to life.

How is this celebrated?

During this ritual, married women wakes up early morning to eat sargi which is a meal prepared and cooked by her mother in law. After eating sargi, women have to stay without water the whole day until the moon comes out. On this day, women pray to lord Shiva and Goddess parvati for the well being of their husbands. In the evening time women perform a pooja in which they offer food to deities and pray for the safety of their husbands. After moon is being spotted, women look at the moon and then at their husbands’ through a sieve after which water is offered o the moon by the women. Husbands then offer some water to drink to their wives to break their fast.

Puja Rituals

Before seeing the moon, a ceremony wihin the community is held for all married women. Women wear beautiful red sarees or lehngas and wear beautiful jewellery and then sit in a circle to precede for their puja thalis. The story of Karva Chauth was narrated by one lady and various songs are sung. Then the women pray to Goddess parvati to bless their husbands’ andfamily. All ladies exchange Karva in a circle to complete the pheras. This is followed by offering halwa, food, puri, kheer etc.

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