A unique festival worship for God SUN and exclusively celebrated in KASBA only, it is one of the Toughest festival Getting performed by those devotees whose wishes gets full filled. The festival Start at the midnight of Deepawali with the Process of KHARNA (where the Devotees keep fast for the Hole day and break the fast in midnight By taking KHEER (a product of rice, Milk and sugar) in a Pin drop silence)), the very Next day Process start with KADWA BHAT (a product of rice and pumpkin) and MUNDAN ( shaving head) of person whose wishes has fulfilled is also call as CHOR along with His Father, Son and uncle (MAMA or CHACHA). Here Maternal Uncle is playing an important role of commanding the whole Processes; Here CHOR (BHANJA) has to follow the Order
Devotees are bound to ware unstitched cloths made up of JUTE (also famous as PATWA) painted in yellow color, including Necessary to ware the JUTE Ring in all Twenty (20) fingers. Here CHOR has to carry a Knife with a nut at tip and MAMA has to carry a shored (TALWAR) with a Nut at tip.
On the First day all devotes along with there family performs Puja at home with the help of local Priest followed by CHATIYA BANDHAN where the mother of CHOR is cutting a JUTE thread from body, from here Fast is getting ended,
After CHATIYA BANDHAN they visit to all close relatives to collect the VIKSHA ( Rice, Plus, Milk, Nut, Turmeric and Money) and in returns the main Member of Relatives (Particularly Lady) touch and wash the leg of CHOR.
On Nest Day they follows the Same procedure (VIKSHA) But they Don’t return their Houses instead they are heading towards the Nearest River for Final ritual where the Local Priest performs Puja followed by BALI, In the Processes of BALI The Sikha ( Tip of Hair Made of JUTE) is Placed on KUMDHA (a very famous for Making Sweet MURABBA) and is getting cut by His CHOR MAMA. Finally they are taking a Dip in river water and dispose off all cloths along with KUMRAH in to the river. With this they are returning to their Normal Life.
Mandatory parameters:-
1. GANGA Snan ( Dip in River Ganga) for the festival to Begin and after that it’s Mandatory to perform the CHAT Puja.
As Narrated By: -
Mr.Surendra Mandal and Mr.Bindnath Saha. |