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In Hindustani classical music, many songs are themed around Radha and Krishna during the rainy season, and also Bollywood songs, e.g., Sawan ki Ritu Aai, Sawan ka Mahina Pawan kare Sor' and 'Rim jhim gire Saawan'. During Shravana, the Hindu community in the regions of Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka practice a vegetarian diet. This is because ...
For this purpose they performed pooja and fasted on four Mondays of Sawan month, after which they perform pooja, distribute sweet rice and then had the sacred thread tied on the wrist by the priest ( Bandhan ). 3. Mahalakshmi's Sacred Thread (Mahalakshmi-a-jo-Sagro) This sacred thread has 16 strips and 17 days. On the day when the sacred thread ...
Sāwaṇ or Sāuṇ (Shahmukhi: ساؤݨ; Gurmukhi: ਸਾਵਣ, ਸਾਉਣ, Punjabi pronunciation: [saːʋəɳᵊ, saːʊɳᵊ]) is the fifth month [1] in the Punjabi calendar and the Nanakshahi calendar.
Govardhan Puja is a principal ritual performed during Annakut. Although some texts treat Govardhan Puja and Annakut as synonymous, the Govardhan Puja is one segment of the day-long Annakut festival. [17] [18] There are many variants of how Govardhan Puja is performed. In one variant of the ritual Krishna is made out of cow dung in horizontal ...
Jalabhisheka is a compound Sanskrit word. The word Jalabhisheka is constituted by compounding the two Sanskrit terms Jala and Abhisheka.The simple meaning of the term Jala is water and its ritualistic meaning is holy water.
Lakshmi Puja or Lokkhi Pujo (Devnagari: लक्ष्मी पूजा, Bengali: লক্ষ্মী পূজা, Odia: ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ ପୂଜା, Romanised: Lakṣmī Pūjā/ Loķhī Pūjō) is a Hindu occasion for the veneration of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity and the Supreme Goddess of Vaishnavism. [1]
Full moon day of Shravan: Aug: Yajnopavita or the sacred jannuvey: Example: On this Shravan full moon day, GSB men worship and change the sacred thread. In northern India, this day is celebrated as Raksha bandhan. Janmashtami: 23rd day of Shravan: Aug–September: Krishna: Birthday of Lord Krishna on Shravan Vadya ashtami is observed with a ...
The puja is described in the Skanda Purana, [1] a medieval era Sanskrit text. [2] [3] According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world". [4]