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- Gangaur festival celebrations light up rustic Bikaner
during the Hindu month of chaitra that falls in the months
of March-April.
- Gangaur festival welcomes spring in Rajasthan and Bikaner
is among the main centers of Gangaur festivities. The
tm Gangaur derives its origin from the words 'Gan' and
'Gauri'. Gan refers to Lord Shiva and Gauri is of course
his consort and the Gangaur festivities signify marital
bliss and happiness.
- The festival is of great significance for the women
of Bikaner. Most families in Bikaner get their "puja
rooms" whitewashed for the Gangaur festival. Ladies
place idols of Gauri and Isar in their puja rooms. The
deities are decorated with bright costumes and ornaments.
Offerings are made as women sing devotional songs.
- Women and young girls sport traditional attires and
ornaments, decorate their palms with henna patterns and
perform rituals that they believe will bless their married
lives with prosperity and happiness.
- Bikaner vibrates with cultural fiestas during the Gangaur
festival. A large procession begins from the Zenana Deori
at the Junagarh Fort main gate and passes through significant
places in the Bikaner city before it reaches Talkatora
where women immerse the idols of Gauri and Isar in the
lake.
- Ladies and maidens fast during the Gangaur festival
and prepare sweets with milk and carry them on their heads
to the banks of any water body and worship the deity Gauri
and come back home distributing the milk sweets en route
as prasad.
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