Kajari Teej 2024: Date, Time, Puja Rituals, and Significance

Kajari Teej

Kajari Teej 2024:Kajari Teej is a big festival in North India, mainly celebrated in Rajasthan, UP, MP and Bihar. It comes in the month of Bhadrapada after Sawan. According to mythology, Goddess Parvati did 108 years of penance to win Lord Shiva and marry him. So women observe this fast to get blessings for a happy marriage and a good husband.

Kajari Teej Date Timings

This year, Kajari Teej will be celebrated on August 22.

• Tritiya Tithi starts on August 21, 2024, at 05:06 PM
• Tritiya Tithi ends -August 22, 2024, at 01:46 PM

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Kajari Teej Significance

Kajari Teej is a big festival for Hindus, mainly for women. They pray to Lord Shiva and Maa Parvati for their husbands well being and long life. This festival is celebrated with great joy and happiness in Rajasthan where a procession of Maa Parvati takes place.

Married women pray for their husbands and unmarried women for an ideal life partner. Shringar is an important part of the ritual. On this day women apply mehendi on their hands and feet and wear traditional clothes like sarees and colourful suits. Feeding and worshipping cows is considered auspicious.

Women who feed cows with green vegetables, chapatis and jaggery are believed to get blessings and their wishes fulfilled. Hindu married women offer kheer, poori, halwa and ghewar to Maa Parvati. They also offer a sweet drink called sattu to Maa Parvati. After offering bhog prasad to Lord Shiva and Maa Parvati, women break their fast.

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Kajari Teej Rituals

On Kajari Teej, women pray to Goddess Parvati for a happy married life.

• The day starts early and women complete their morning chores, wear new clothes, sindur, bindi, bangles and mehndi like a newly wed bride.
• In some places, women gather to worship the neem tree under the guidance of a priest, offer kumkum, chawal, haldi, henna, fruits and sweets during the puja.
• They observe a strict fast called Kajari Teej Vrat, start with a meal before sunrise and then don’t eat or drink anything for the whole day.
• In the evening women gather for the puja where the priest tells the Kajari Teej Katha. In some communities, the fast is broken by having sattu or fruits after the moon is worshipped.

Kajari Teej vrat is often continued for a lifetime or for 16 years once it starts.

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