Indian fairs and festivals have throughout the time attracted tourists. The fairs and festivals in India at every state in India are celebrated with equal gusto. Kajari, Mati-tihar, Gobar-boharani, Ramnavmi, Navakhani are important fairs and festivals in Chhattisgarh.
Kajari Festival is another important festival of Chhattisgarh region. Kajari Purnima falls on the same day as Raksha Bandhan that is on the Shravan Purnima. Since this festival falls at the end of the monsoon season, it is of great importance to the farmers. The preparations of the kajari festival start on the ninth day of Shravana Amavasya or Kajari Navami. The rituals are performed by the ladies blessed with a son. The rituals continue till the Kajri Purnima or the full moon day. Kajari festival is of importance to the farmers as it signifies the beginning of the sowing season for wheat and barley. They worship Godess Bagwati and seek blessings for a good crop.
Features:
On the Shravan Shukla Navami, women go to fields and bring earth in the leaf cups.
Leaf or barley is sown in it and kept in a dark room where no sunlight or fresh air reaches.
The place where this leaf cup is kept and the surrounding walls are cleaned and washed with mud and cow dung.
The place then is decorated patterns made by rice solution. The motifs are generally the house hold articles and activities. Figures of a house, a child in cradle, a mongoose and a woman with a pitcher are mandatory figures. This art of drawing with the rice solution on mud washed floor is called Navami.
Then the cup is worshiped.
The worship is repeated for seven days till the full moon day. The evening of the full moon day has the final ritual.
The women move out in procession carrying the leaf cups on their heads.
They carry it to a pond or any other water body and immerse it.
Women keep fast on this day and pray for the well being of their sons
Season
Kajari Festival or Kajari Purnima falls on the same day as Raksha Bandhan that is on the Shravan Purnima
How to Reach
By Air -
Raipur is only centre to be linked up with an air network. Indian Airline connects the city with Delhi and Nagpur by regular flights.
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By Rail -
Almost all the state is connected with good railway network internally as well as externally. Raipur and Bilaspur are the major railway stations connected to every part of the country.
By Road -
National Highways 6, 43, and 16 connect all the major cities of the state to other parts in the country like Bhubaneswar, Calcutta, and many places in the western India. There is a good internal road network in the state connecting all the major parts with the state capital.
It is best to visit Chhattisgarh during the Kajari Festival.
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