Kajri Navami
Date : August 13, 2011
Venue : Madhya Pradesh
Farmers in parts of Central India celebrate the beginning of the sowing season as Kajri Purnima or Kajri Navami. It is celebrated on the same day as the Raksha Bandhan,
The festival is celebrated by farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, who usually harvest barley and wheat, the major cereals of India.
In the Bundelkhandi-speaking areas, only women with sons observe this festival.
The preparation starts on the ninth day after the Kajri Amavasya (no moon day). This day is known as Kajri Navami (ninth day). The celebrations and rituals begin from Kajari Navami and last till the Kajari Purnima or the full moon day – a total of about five days. On this occasion, Goddess Bhagwati, the goddess of prosperity, is worshipped and her blessings invoked for good crops.
Women bring soil from the fields in leaf cups to their houses and then sow barley in them. These are then kept in specially darkened rooms, the walls of which have been polished with cow dung and mud.
The places where these leaf cups are placed are decorated with designs made of rice. The mandatory figures for these designs include a house, a child in a cradle, a mongoose and a woman with a pitcher.
Venue : Madhya Pradesh
Farmers in parts of Central India celebrate the beginning of the sowing season as Kajri Purnima or Kajri Navami. It is celebrated on the same day as the Raksha Bandhan,
The festival is celebrated by farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, who usually harvest barley and wheat, the major cereals of India.
In the Bundelkhandi-speaking areas, only women with sons observe this festival.
The preparation starts on the ninth day after the Kajri Amavasya (no moon day). This day is known as Kajri Navami (ninth day). The celebrations and rituals begin from Kajari Navami and last till the Kajari Purnima or the full moon day – a total of about five days. On this occasion, Goddess Bhagwati, the goddess of prosperity, is worshipped and her blessings invoked for good crops.
Women bring soil from the fields in leaf cups to their houses and then sow barley in them. These are then kept in specially darkened rooms, the walls of which have been polished with cow dung and mud.
The places where these leaf cups are placed are decorated with designs made of rice. The mandatory figures for these designs include a house, a child in a cradle, a mongoose and a woman with a pitcher.
