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Karva Chauth or Karwa Chauth or Karaka Chaturthi (Sanskrit: करकचतुर्थी, romanized: Karakachaturthī) [3] is a Hindu festival celebrated by Hindu women of Nepal, Northern India and Western Indiain October or November on the Bikram Sambat month of Kartika. [4]
This resembles the karwa-chauth celebration, in which a wife fasts and prays for her husband's welfare. Bangles: Hindu wives also wear bangles of either white ("sankha") and/or red colour ("pala") on both hands, and do not remove them until they are single. Often made of glass, they are broken when the marriage ends.
Karva Chauth is a one-day festival celebrated by Hindu women from some regions of India, especially northern India. On Karva Chauth, the married women, especially in Northern India , fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands.
Unmarried girls and children will play on the streets singing Atla Tadde Song after having suddi until sun rises. People swing in the Uyyala (Swing (seat)). People watch the reflection of the Moon in nearby pond or lake after the sunrise welcoming the day. Pootarekulu (sweet made with rice flour, jaggery, and milk)
Karwa Chauth is a form of fasting practised in some parts of India where married women undertake a fast for the well-being, prosperity, and longevity of their husbands. The fast is broken after the wife views the moon through a sieve.
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