Chhat puja

Kolkata, India

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Bihar is a land of festival and fair. Chhat puja is the most pious festival of Bihar. Chat puja is a festival dedicated to the God sun. Chhat puja is celebrated twice in a year. Chat puja observed in…

Note 2 - When the sun will appear, all women bath in the holiest river, than start the ritual. Holding one of those baskets full of new fruits towards the sun, each male of the familly - you see them waiting under the umbrella - will pour water from the river around the women's head, and around the offerings : this day, women are considered real goddess. After what, the content of the baskets is distributed to beggars, and women, who have been fasting since three days, will brake their fast…