Annapurna Base Camp Trekking, Family Tour in Nepal
Teej
festival is traditionally celebrated by hindu women but nowadays Buddhist women
also celebrate.Teej is celebrated in India and Nepal especially by women in the
months of July-August marking the advent of monsoon. Teej festival symbolize to
show reunion of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Both married and unmarried
women seek her blessings for their happy marital life,on the teej festival.
Women
go their parents home to celebrate Teej festival.Wearing new clothes, usually
gifted by the woman's parents, are worn, and women get together to fast and to
offer prayers to the goddess Parvati, whose devotion to her husband, Shiva, is
considered exemplary.
Dar
Khane is first day of festival, this day both married and unmarried women,mainly
chettri and bharman ethnic group, assemble at one place and dancing and singing
devotional songs.
The
second day of festival is the fasting day. Some women live without a food and
drops of water while others take ,liquid juice,water,milk and fruit. They go to
offer flowers, sweets and coins to pashupatinath temple.otherwise any Shiva
temple, offering.
Teej
is celebrated just before the first day of Ganesh Chaturthi is called Rishi
Panchami, is third day of festival,After the completion of the previous day's
puja, women pay homage to various deities and bath with the roots of the sacred
datiwan bush, along with its leaves. This act of purification is the final
ritual of Teej, after which women are considered absolved from all their sins.
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