Festival

Budhei Osha, popularly known as Budhi Bamana, is a festival celebrated every Wednesday in the month of Bhadrab. Budhibaman is a local god capable of granting eyes to the blind, children to the childless, and curing leprosy and other virulent diseases. Budhei is worshipped every Wednesday of the Bhadrab month. The curry stone, adorned with vermilion, collyrium, and flowers, is offered to God. According to the myth, a wine merchant's wife was cured of leprosy. Five of his sons were killed by a king, and then life was restored for…

Sitala Sasthi starts on the fourth day of the bright fortnight of Jyestha and continues for three days. The marriage ceremony of Siva with Parvati is performed on this day every Year. The villagers are too poor to construct a chariot. They place a wooden bull on two bullock carts joined together. Parvati and Siva are seated on the back of the God, and the Goddess takes Bhog at every door. This festival attracts a great gathering of people from the neighbouring villages for the skilful fireworks display. Sitali Yatra…

Nirjala Ekadashi is considered to be a very sacred day, and so fast is observed on every eleventh day of the bright and dark half of the month. The eleventh day of the moon is specially set apart for devotional exercises and fasting. It is a day dedicated to the worship of Vishnu. The Vishnu Purana and the Markandeya Purana give detaileddescriptions of the benefits resulting from the observance of Ekadasi brata. In all Ekadasi, fasts are observed in a year, but some Ekadasis, are relatively of greater significance. There…