All devotees prepare similar prasada (religious food) and offerings. Įnvironmentalists have claimed that the festival of Chhath is one of the most eco-friendly religious festivals.
Some devotees also perform a prostration march as they head for the river banks. They include holy bathing, fasting and abstaining from drinking water ( vrata), standing in water, and offering prasad (prayer offerings) and arghya to the setting and rising sun.
It is celebrated six days after Diwali, on the sixth day of the lunar month of Karthika (October–November) in the Hindu calendar Vikram Samvat. Chhathi Maiya, the mother goddess and Sun's sister, is worshipped as the Goddess of the festival. Prayers during Chhath puja are dedicated to the solar deity, Surya, to show gratitude and thankfulness for bestowing the bounties of life on earth and to request the granting of certain wishes. , and it has become popular with the Nepali hilly community in the recent years, thanks to the influence of the southern immigrants. To thank Sun for bestowing the bounties of life on earth and fulfilling particular wishesĬhhath is an ancient Hindu Vedic festival historically native to the Indian subcontinent, more specifically, the Indian states of Bihar,and, Jharkhand and the southern parts of Nepal.
Performing of prayer to Sun around the holy rivers, ponds and other small water bodies
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