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Gangaur festival is a most popular festival, it is so famous
specially in Jaipur and udaipur of rajasthan. gangaur is
religious festival and it is made for women.
everywhere in rajasthan India women place idols of lord iswar
and parvati at there home. women and girls do prepare them and
then they perform pooja, aarti and other activities to lord and
great goddess parvati.
Gangaur is a festival and it can be celebrated for some days at
different places, in udaipur it is celebrated
for three days and these days are called as hari gangaur,
chundari gangore, and gulabi gangaur.
Wooden Gangaur Idol are made and then women took them at main
place of city where pooja, goomar and other activities are
performed to the idol of gangaur. ladies and girls make
delicious food at home and then they serve it to family. all
have fun of dance and singing religious songs during gangaur
festival in rajasthan. there is a place at udaipur which is
known as Gangaur Ghat it is made on the bank of a famous lake of
udaipaur. the gangaur sawari or procession is
also a main and attractive part of gangaur festivals at udiapur
and jaipur of rajasthan.
Gangaur
Festival
This festival is specially celebrated in bikaner, Jaipur,
jodhpur and rajsamand etc. At the evening time a large emperial
procession of gangaur goes to from the temple to the main market
and at last stops at a big fair ground. The procession is the
decorated with canopy, flowers and green leaves of banana tree.
One of the interesting aspects of Gangaur Festival is that on
this day devotees dance, sung songs and plays musical
instruments during the procession of gangaur festival.
Gangaur Festival is celebrated after the festival of holi. The
festival of gangaur is celebrated in honour of goddess
parvati(Gouri). People wears new clothes & jewellery then goes
to watch the procession or fair of gangaur festival. Near by
villagers comes to the fair ground and they enjoy during the
gangaur festival.
younger and unmarried girls observes fast and pray to lord Shiva
& goddess parvati and they want good husband of their choice and
happiness in life .
Gangaur
Festival of Rajasthan
Various Places where the Gangaur festival is Celebrated in
Rajasthan. Specially this festival is celebrated minimum for
three days and maximum eighteen days in Rajasthan. It is come
after holi festival.
Even unmarried girls fast for the full period of 18 days and eat
only one meal a day. In Jaipur, a sweet dish called ‘ghewar’ is
characteristic of the Gangaur Festival. People buy ‘ghewar’ to
eat and distribute it among their friends and relatives. People
allot greeting card’s, gifts & sweets their relatives. Many
people play with fire-works at night. this day younger boys &
girls select their life partner.
Gangaur
Festival Day Dates In Year 2006, 2007 And 2008
The gangaur festival is a very important festival in Hindu
culture. gangaur festival comes after the festival of holi about
the month of march-April. it is a very well known and colourful
festival of India and specially in rajasthan. it is a very
famous festival of rajasthan and it is specially celebrated in
udaipur, jaipur and other districts of rajasthan India.
The gangaur festival will be celebrated in year 2006, 2007 and
2008 on following dates -
* The gangaur
festival will come in year 2006 on - 1st to 3rd April 2006.
* The gangaur festival will come in year 2007 on - 21th to 23rd
March 2007.
* The gangaur festival will come in year 2008 on - 8th to 10th
April 2008.
Gangaur Fair
of Jaipur Rajasthan
The Gangaur Festival is colour full and special fun festival of
Rajasthan. It is the one of the biggest festival which
celebrated in eighteen days. This Gangaur fair is celebrated in
many district of Rajasthan. It is the festival which specially
celebrated in Jaipur. This festival comes in the Hindi month of
chaitra after eighteen days of holi festival. This gangaur fair
and festival is very famous in Jaipur. People comes there in
much quantity and celebrate this fair of gangaur.
This festival is related to god of shiva and parvati. It is
celebrated in honour of Gauri or parvati who symbolises of
saubhagya (marital bliss). Many women who worship Gauri they
observe fast during this festival of Gangaur. Many unmarried
women worship goddess of parvati for being blessed with good
husbands and good married life and Further married women observe
fast for welfare of their husband and her family.
The Gangaur fair and festival special celebrated in many cities
of rajasthan at Jaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Nathdwara, Rajsamand
and Jaisalmer are full of pomp and great joy. During this fair
of gangaur people organised fair specially in Jaipur. Specially
in Jaipur Many people make colorful procession of idol of god
shiva and parvati with elephant, camel and horses and this
procession goes to the main market of city and at last it goes
to the fair of gangaur where people celebrate in night with fun
and joy.
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