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Karwa
Chauth Baya Mansane ki Vidhi
Ingredients
Rice grains
Aarte ka diya
Karwa-one (clay vessel)
Roli (vermilion mixed in few drops of water)
Aepen (for few hours soak the rice, then grind
it into fine paste, mix little turmeric powder
in it and if you don't have rice paste mix in
aata)
Kalawa (holy thread)
Water
Pooja Preparation
Place of
worship is first cleaned then draw seep chalk
on the ground or on some wooden board
In the
middle of a small patta draw satia and
decorate it by drawing lines on all the four
sides. On this small wooden plank the Gaur
Maata to be worshipped is placed. Apply
vermilion on the head of all the gods and
dress them with new poshak. (dress)
Place this
small wooden plank on the seep chalk betel
leaf shaped portion.
The tumbler
or karwa (clay tumbler) is decorated with
aepen. Aepen is also put on its nozzle. Then
sacred thread 'kalawa' is tied on its neck.
The cover of the tumbler or shakora (clay
cover) is also decorated with aepen
Baya mansene ke vidi
Wear chunari
with right hand pallu. On the hanging side of
the pallu tie few grains of rice which are
kept on the baya at the time of baya mansena.
All the ladies nicely dressed up wearing
Jewelry , bangles after putting on Chaup Bendi
for worshipping Gaur Maata. They also put
kalawa in braid shape in their hair(Char-le)
They sit on the carpet or low stool (patta)
and make a cup shape in their right hand palm
to hold rice grains, roli, aepen and little
water and dip the long finger of their left
hand in that. Cover this with the end of your
chunari in which you have tied the rice and
keep this over the top of your baya (karwa
with cover on top over which a steel plate
with ten mathari, little halwa and pooa and
few rupees .
The nozzle of your karwa should face the
nozzle of the other persons karwa with whom
you are exchanging .
Then the sacred words are uttered
"adh shukal paksh (or Krishan Paksh) aaj
hua waar (day as spoken in hindi Monday -soamwar,
Tuesday-mangalwar etc.)
aaj (today)----(husband's name whose wife is
doing this) ke bahu (bahu) ----------take the
bahu's name)karwa chauth ka baya manse nagadi
(money), Poori, halwa chana (whatever is in
the baya) ka baya manse inhe rani ka raj dejo,
gaur ka suhag dejo Rani pooje raj ko yeh pooje
suhaag ko Gaur mata en ka atal suhaag rahe"
After saying
this she removes her middle finger, right hand
stuff is rotated round the baya and leave it
infront of the baya. She again takes little
water in right hand palm cup repeat like
earlier. Do it three times. This is called
baya mansana.
After all the ladies have mansoed their baya
they exchange baya. One lady tilts her baya
forward says
'le suhaagan karwa
'the other lady tilts her baya backward and
say
"la suhaagan karwa"
They say this for ten times each.
Then they repeat the same in reverse order.
After this they offer baya to gaur mata and
then to their mother in law or any elderly
lady and touch her feet.
If you are alone and nobody else to exchange
the baya then do the same with 'gaur mata'
repeating the above mentioned ritual
Offering
'Ark to moon' vidhi
When the
moon rises, ladies look at the moon and offer
it ark (water). For this face the moon holding
aarti thaal and then offer water three times
by tilting the tumbler downward so water falls
then offer aarti. Throw some rice towards moon
and worship for the long life of the husband.
Opening the fast
Take ten pooyas or its ten pieces,
whatever convenient and then eat them slowly.
Taking each bite round your head and
remembering gaur mata. Do this ten times
without speaking. Then drink water and eat
food
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