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essay on chhath puja 100 words

Answer 1

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'Chhath Puja' is a famous festival of Hindus. It is celebrated in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and many other parts of India. It is also followed in some parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and also Mauritius and Nepal. It is celebrated mainly among the Bhojpuri and Maithali speaking people. Chhath Puja takes place during 6th day (Shasthi) lunar fortnight (Shukla Paksha) of Karthik month according to Hindu Calendar. It generally falls in the month of October-November. The festival lasts for four days.  

Chhath Puja is also known as Dala Chhath. In this important festival setting Sun (dawn) is worshiped. The festival is observed with the faith that the Sun God fulfills wishes if 'araghya' is offered with complete dedication and devotion. It is a festival connected with purity, devotion to the Sun God who is considered as the source of life on this earth and is regarded as the deity who fulfills all our wishes. The festival is with an aim to express thanks to Sun God for offering energy to earth continuously enabling the environment suitable for the people to live. Along with the Sun God people worship 'Chhathi Maiya' on this day.  

On this festival devotees assemble at the ghats at rivers and ponds and take a holy dip before preparing offerings (Prasad). The main constituent of the offerings are Thekua, which is a wheat based cake. Offerings are preferably cooked on earthen Chulha (oven). During the offerings, offerings are contained in small, semicircular pans woven out of bamboo strips called soop.

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Answer 2

India is a country of festivals and here all festivals are celebrated with great fanfare. Chhath Puja is one of the main festivals of Hindus. Mainly this festival is celebrated in Bihar but it has slowly been celebrated in all parts of India and apart from it it is celebrated abroad also. This festival is celebrated especially on the Shukla side of the Kartik month. This is a four-day festival which begins with Chaturthi and Saptami has its last day. This festival is associated with Sun God. At this festival women keep a fast for their husbands long life and children to get happiness.
There are many ancient stories related to this festival, of which there is a Ramayana period, then there is no Mahabharata period. This festival is celebrated only after Diwali with great enthusiasm. On the first day of Chhath puja, women eat gram dal, Loki's vegetable and roti etc. The other day, he only buys jaggery at night, which is called Kharena. On the third day i.e. on the sixth day, she keeps a nirjal vrat and according to her wish, Prasad of 11, 21 or 51 fruits binds it into a bamboo dal and gives it to her husband or son and goes towards the river. On the way, women sing the sixth mother's song on the way. By reaching the river on the river, worshiping Pandit gives sun to the sun while dipping in the evening with raw milk. By rising next day, the sun is also given with raw milk, and then it breaks its fast. After Chhath Pooja, all people are very happy and there is a lot like Diwali.