The Importance Of Karwa Chauth In India And It's Meaning

Karwa Chauth is an important festival for all married women. From sunrise till moonrise, she keeps a fast for the safety of her husband. Keeping a fast without drinking water and eating any food all through the day seems to be a difficult one but the doting wives perform all these with much love and respect in their head and heart for their husbands.

The meaning of Karwa Chauth is offering Argya to the moon using an earthen pot known as Karwa on the Chaturthi of the Karthika month. It falls on the fourth day of the dark fortnight in the Kartika month every year.

The festival starts with a custom of eating a pre-dawn meal known as Sargi, before the sunrise on Karva Chauth, which includes nuts, kheer and mathri.

Women dress in fine clothing, wear jewellery and apply henna on their hands. The day is usually indulged in community gatherings and narrating Karva-Chauth legends by an elderly woman to the group of married ladies.

Women also worship Goddess Parvati in the Karwa Chauth puja followed by Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesh and Lord Kartikeya. The fast is later broken after having a glimpse of the moon.

It is believed that Draupadi had also observed this fast for the safety and long life of her husbands. - When Arjun had gone for penance in the Nilgris, the rest of the Pandavas faced many issues in his absence. That's when Draupadi remembered Lord Krishna for his help, who reminded her that on a similar situation earlier Goddess Parvati had kept a fast for Lord Shiva. Inspired by this, Draupadi too keeps a fast of Karva Chauth with all its rituals for her husbands. And consequently, the Pandavas are able to face their problems and overcome them.

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