Jitiya Festival Starts In Mithila Region From Today Jitiya festival has started today in the Mithila region along with Mahomattri.
This festival, which is celebrated for the long life of children, the birth of a son, and family happiness and peace, has started today by bathing and eating in the Mithila region.
According to the Mithila Panchang in Shri Janaki Bhittepatro, there is a mention of Jitiya Vrat on Tuesday, Ashoj 8th on Tuesday, and Ashoj 9th at 5:15 PM in Mithilachal Vrat.
According to the change of dates, this year in Mithilachal, during the Jitiya festival, which starts with Naha Kha (bathing and eating) today, fasting women have to fast from 4 am on Tuesday morning and all day on Tuesday and throughout the day on Wednesday. Pandit Upendra Pathak said.
Similarly, tomorrow (Tuesday) from 4:00 a.m., fasting and fasting will be completed on the following day (Wednesday) at 5:15 p.m.
Hundreds of devotees bathe in sacred lakes and rivers including Vighi, Rato Jangaha, Ankushi River, and holy ponds of the district including Lakshmi Sagar, Barunsagar, and Bhargvasar, and listen to the story of Jitmahan. While telling and listening to the story, it is customary for the father to tell and the younger to listen.
On the day before fasting (today), the fasting person should bathe in different reservoirs and offer food containing pina, sugar, and mustard oil on Ghiraula leaves.
From the oil offered to the deity, it is customary to apply the same oil as prasad to one’s own branch children.
In the same way, according to the law, before crowing tomorrow at one o’clock in the morning, fasting women should perform Jonathan, that is, they should put some food on their lips. Most of the women eat curd and curd in Ongathan. Then begins the sequence of severe fasting.
Pandit Badrinarayan Jha of Jaleshwar Municipality-8 says that this fast, which is celebrated on the Ashtami day of Ashwin Krishna Paksha, is particularly difficult.
Among the fasts celebrated in Mithilachal, Jitiya Vrat is considered as a sacred fast. If women belch or bite their mouth or tongue on the day of fasting, it is considered that the fast has failed. That is why this festival is also called Khad Jitia. Once again, the fasting person who has failed will not be able to fast for life.
In the kingdom of King Shalivahan, after the seven sons of a woman were taken away by a demon, the king brought back all seven sons from the demon, so the women named Shalivahan as ‘Jitumahan’ and started fasting in memory of the king.
