Highly spritual and pious towards local traditions, every festival is an occasion to celebrate and rejoice with friends, relatives and different social groups. This cultural bond is also extended to the relationship with God.
No food is considered eaten unless offered to God. Good faith, grace and wealth is what is wished from their favourite Goddess Laxmi. She is prayed on the Purnima tithi of Ashwin month when the Mother Nature is at her magnificent grandeur, flow of material resources, gaiety and blooming of young hearts is at the zenith.
A nightlong play of dice surrounded by good food, cloth and jovialness gives a youthful zest to Kumar Purnima. Interestingly, the moon and Kartikya are also worshipped on this festival.
Unmarried children of the family wear new clothes, play a game called " Puchi" accompanied by folk songs, eat only fruits, puffed rice, coconut by looking at the moon in the sky, perform "JanhiPuja" at the Tulsi installed in their courtyard and spent the day with extreme joyous spirit. This autumn festival is one of the most popular and important festival of Odisha. Kumar or Kartikeya, the handsome Son of Shiva was born on this day.
He also became the God of war. As young girls always wish for a handsome husband, they propitiate Kumara who was most handsome among the Gods. But, peculiarly enough there is no ritual for the God, instead the Sun and the Moon are worshipped. In the early morning the girls after their purificatory bath wear new garments and make food-offerings to the Sun.
It marks the end of monsoon. He was very good looking and young girls always wished for a handsome husband like him.
Therefore, the kumaries maidens celebrate this festival to get a good-looking husband like Kartika. We all woke up early in the morning and performed all the rituals. Though she is a lecturer in a college of Rourkela, she has come to her village for this festival only. They use Khai, Ukhuda, jiggery, sugarcane, banana, Chhena cottage cheese and talasaja to prepare the prasad. The girls lay out the prasad on a plate in the shape of half moon and then offered to the moon. It is observed as the birthday of goddess Laxmi, the deity of wealth.
The day is also known as Kumar Purnima as young girls in Odisha perform traditional rituals with the belief of getting ideal life partners. Obesity may raise these gum diseases. Jharkhand Foundation Day: Significance and other details you must know.
They also lighten a diya and perform a puja to pay reverence to the Almighty for a suitable bridegroom. Lord Kumar Kartikeya, the son of Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati, was very good-looking and the most eligible bachelor in the kingdom of gods.
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