Four-day `Chhath Mahaparv' will begin in city with `Nahai-Khai' tomorrow
The biggest festival of the worship of Sun God- the four-day `Chhath festival ' will begin in the city with `Nahay Khay' on 28 October. On this day, the Chhath devotees and their families will clean and purify their houses. Thereafter, the devotees will take a bath and will consume pure vegetarian food. `Kharna' will be organized on the second day of Chhath Mahaparva on October 29 (Saturday), wherein the devotees after observing fast for the whole day, will cook kheer made of rice and jaggery and wheat flour roti on a new earthen chulha. After offering these prasad to the Sun God, the devotees will eat this prasad. Thereafter, the 36 hours of water less fast for the devotees will begin.
On the third day of Chhath Mahaparv, on October 30 (Sunday), the fasting women and men will offer `Arghya' to the setting Sun God. Chhath Mahaparv will end on 31 October (Monday) with devotees offering `Arghya' to the rising Sun God.
After two years after the Covid pandemic, this year `Chhath Mahaparv' is being organized in a big way across the city without any Covid restrictions. This year `Chhath' festival is being organized at more than 7 dozen places across the city under the aegis of the Poorvottar Sanskritik Sansthan Madhya Pradesh. The cleaning of Chhath Ghats has been started by the `Chhath Organizing Committees' after Diwali. The cooperation of the corporators and officers of Indore Municipal Corporation is also being taken in this work.
Every year in the city and its surrounding areas, Chhath festival is organized at over 80 places in the city including at Scheme No 54, 78, Banganga, Sukhlia, Shyam Nagar, Tulsi Nagar, Pipliyahana Talab, Cat Road, Kalani Nagar, Aerodrome Road, Silicon City, Dewas Naka, Nipania, Rau, and Pithampur respectively where the devotees hailing from from Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh offer Arghya to the setting and rising Sun God.
The Chhath festival primarily originated from Bihar has now become a national and global festival with people of Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh living in all corners of the world offering `arghya' to the Sun God for the wellbeing, good health and long life of their family members.
In view of the immense reverence and popularity of the people towards this great festival, the materials used in Chhath Puja are sold by the local people in many areas including Malwa Mill, Patnipura of the city.
The biggest festival of the worship of Sun God- the four-day `Chhath festival ' will begin in the city with `Nahay Khay' on 28 October. On this day, the Chhath devotees and their families will clean and purify their houses. Thereafter, the devotees will take a bath and will consume pure vegetarian food. `Kharna' will be organized on the second day of Chhath Mahaparva on October 29 (Saturday), wherein the devotees after observing fast for the whole day, will cook kheer made of rice and jaggery and wheat flour roti on a new earthen chulha. After offering these prasad to the Sun God, the devotees will eat this prasad. Thereafter, the 36 hours of water less fast for the devotees will begin.
On the third day of Chhath Mahaparv, on October 30 (Sunday), the fasting women and men will offer `Arghya' to the setting Sun God. Chhath Mahaparv will end on 31 October (Monday) with devotees offering `Arghya' to the rising Sun God.
After two years after the Covid pandemic, this year `Chhath Mahaparv' is being organized in a big way across the city without any Covid restrictions. This year `Chhath' festival is being organized at more than 7 dozen places across the city under the aegis of the Poorvottar Sanskritik Sansthan Madhya Pradesh. The cleaning of Chhath Ghats has been started by the `Chhath Organizing Committees' after Diwali. The cooperation of the corporators and officers of Indore Municipal Corporation is also being taken in this work.
Every year in the city and its surrounding areas, Chhath festival is organized at over 80 places in the city including at Scheme No 54, 78, Banganga, Sukhlia, Shyam Nagar, Tulsi Nagar, Pipliyahana Talab, Cat Road, Kalani Nagar, Aerodrome Road, Silicon City, Dewas Naka, Nipania, Rau, and Pithampur respectively where the devotees hailing from from Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh offer Arghya to the setting and rising Sun God.
The Chhath festival primarily originated from Bihar has now become a national and global festival with people of Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh living in all corners of the world offering `arghya' to the Sun God for the wellbeing, good health and long life of their family members.
In view of the immense reverence and popularity of the people towards this great festival, the materials used in Chhath Puja are sold by the local people in many areas including Malwa Mill, Patnipura of the city.