What is karva chauth
Karva Chauth is a very important festival for all married (suhagin) women. This one day festival is celebrated every year mainly by married women of northern India. On this day married (suhagin) women observe a full day's fast which begins with sunrise in the early morning and ends after moonrise in the late evening or sometimes late at night. For the safe and long life of her husband, she observes a very strict fast for the whole day without water and without food.
Earlier it was a traditional festival celebrated especially in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab. However, nowadays it is celebrated by all women in almost every region of India. According to the Hindu lunisolar calendar, the festival of Karva Chauth occurs four days after the full moon day (in October or November) in the month of Kartik. The fast of Karva Chauth is also observed by some unmarried women according to their custom and tradition for the long life of their fiances or to get the desired husband in future.
It is celebrated with other celebrations like Haritalika Teej (which is celebrated every year especially by women in U.P. for the long life and welfare of their husbands) and Chhath (especially in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and other regions of India). It is celebrated annually by women for the same reason.)
karva chauth 2021
Karva Chauth 2021 will be celebrated by women all over India as well as abroad on 24th October, Sunday.
Muhurat of Karva Chauth Puja in 2021
The Karva Chauth Muhurat is the exact time within which the worship is to be performed. The entire duration for Karva Chauth Puja on 24 October is 1 hour and 17 minutes.
The timing of Karva Chauth Puja will start at 5:43 pm.
The time for performing Karva Chauth Puja will end at 6:59 pm.
Moonrise time on Karva Chauth 2021
On the day of Karva Chauth, the time of moonrise will be 8:07 pm. The time of moon rise on the day of Karva Chauth is of great importance for all women as they keep fast for the whole day (without water) for the long life of their husbands. They can drink water only after seeing the full moon rising. It is believed that the fast is incomplete without seeing the moon and a woman can neither eat nor drink water. Karva Chauth fast is considered complete only when the woman sees the rising moon with a lamp of ghee in a sieve and drinks water from the hands of her husband by offering arghya to the moon.
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karva chauth fast
The festival of Karva Chauth is celebrated with great joy every year on the Chaturthi of the month of Kartik by women fasting for the whole day in Krishna Paksha. It is being celebrated in almost all the states of India on the same date. It falls every year in the month of October or November, on the fourth day of the full moon according to the Hindu calendar.
Fasting on the day of Karva Chauth is a major ritual during which a married woman observes a fast for the whole day and worships Lord Ganesha for her husband's welfare and long life. Notably, it is a festival of married women, although in some Indian regions; There is also a tradition for unmarried women to fast for their future husbands.
On this day married women fast for the whole day, worship Lord Shiva and his family in the evening, and break the fast in the late evening or night only after seeing the moonrise. Karva Chauth fasting is very difficult and it has a strict discipline or rule that a woman cannot take any food or water from sunrise to moonrise in the night.
It is also called as Karaka Chaturthi (Karva or Karaka means an earthen pot using which a woman offers Arghya to the Moon). There is also a tradition of giving some charity and dakshina to a Brahmin or other married woman. It is highly popular in North Indian states as compared to other regions of the country. There is another fasting festival for son named as Ahoi Ashtami Vrat which falls just four days after Karva Chauth.
Origin and story of Karva Chauth
Karva Chauth means fasting and offering Arghya to the moon using karva (earthen pot) on the Chaturthi of Krishna Paksha of Kartik month. Karva Chauth falls every year on the fourth day of the dark fortnight. The celebration of the festival of Karva Chauth by women in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent is not yet clear, although some reasons for celebrating it exist.
It is believed that women pray to God for the healthy and long life of their husbands when they are away from home on their duty or other difficult missions like Indian soldiers, policemen, military personnel etc. Indian soldiers do very tough duty on the border of the country for the security of the whole country away from their home. They perform their duty by crossing many rivers in dry areas, facing the monsoon season and facing many more challenges. So, their wives pray to God for the safety, longevity and well being of their husbands.
Women fast for the whole day without eating food and without drinking even a drop of water for the safety of their husband wherever they are on their mission away from their home. This festival occurs during the sowing of wheat i.e. at the beginning of the Rabi crop cycle. A woman worships a large earthen pot (karva) filled with wheat grains and prays to the god for a good harvest in this season especially in wheat-eating regions.
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