Chhath Puja

What is worn for Chhath Puja

Chhath is a four day festival of Bihar, Jharkhand, eastern Uttar Pradesh and the Nepal Terai, in which the Sun and Chhathi Maiya are worshipped. It begins on the fourth day of the bright half of Kartika, about five days after Diwali, with a bath and meal, and ends on the seventh with an offering to the rising sun. The women who keep the fast, called vratis, wear a new, clean saree, often cotton or silk in yellow, orange or red, and apply sindoor from the nose along the parting. They stand in river or pond water at dusk and dawn with baskets of fruit and thekua, a sweet wheat biscuit. Men commonly wear a plain washed dhoti or other clean cloth. The dates shown run from the first to the last day.

The sarees

SariA new, clean saree is worn throughout the fast.Tussar silkBhagalpur tussar is a Bihar silk used for festive wear.