Bikhauti Fair
Uttarakhand have got
vivacious individuals celebrating lifetime with any presented occasion. Any
kind of honest as well as centenary can be an element of most of these celebrations
around your day-to-day lives involving normal individuals. Bikhauti Honest can
be recognized for the morning involving Vishuwat Sankranti morning
memorializing early glory. The actual Bagwal honest can be used on Covered
Pokhar inside older community involving Dwarahat about this morning. Every day
before Bikhauti Honest, much the same honest can be used on Vibhandeshwar where
The almighty Shiva can be worshipped.
Area
The actual honest
involving Bikhauti can be used inside community involving Dwarahat, with
regards to sixty four km's through the community involving Ranikhet (28 km's
through Almora). This kind of archaeologically along with typically domineering
community can be situated on the Karna Prayag Route and is simply half a dozen
km's through the extremely well known along with pious Dronagiri temple. The
city involving Dwarahat had been when the cash involving Katuyari Regal family
involving Kumaon and contains a group of temples or wats committed to
Mrityunjaya, Dhwaj, Badrinath, Maniyan, along with Kachri Devtas.
Haatkalika
Fair
The Haatkalika fair is
held in Gangolihat, a small town in the Pithoragarh District of Uttarakhand.
The fair is organized in honor of Idol Haatkalika, a divine embodiment of Maa
Kali. This place is also a ‘Shakti Peeth’ which is a place where a mortal body
part of the goddess is supposed to have misshapen after Ma Sati bereaved
herself of her life. Hatkalika Fair is held on the eight day (ashtami) of the
month of Chaitra and Bhado.
A procession is taken out
with the to-be-sacrificed animals, in which people play drums and sing and
dance to the tune of the drum beats. The athwar (eight sacrifices) processions
with drums and dances are worth seeing at the Haatkalika fair. It is said that
if one truly wants something and he deserves it then Goddess Hatkalika fulfills
the person’s wishes. The nearby ‘Patal Bhubaneswar’ caves or the natural
subversive caves are worth visiting to see a marvel of nature
Jageshwar Fair
Imagine a single fair for a bunch of almost two
hundered temples. Think of a crowd of thousands of people within these ancient
places of worship with a legend older than the temple building. Jageshwar Fair
is held in the honor of Lord Jageshwar (another name for God Shiva), one of the
twelve Jyotirlingas (Columns of Light) spread all over India. Jageshwar group of
temples has about 150-200 temples dedicated to gods and goddesses of lesser
hierarchy. There are two Jageshwar Mela held over the year, one on Maha
Shivratri and the other in the month of Sravana. The latter one is more famous
and bigger, far more people attend it and thus it is livelier by local
standards.
Time & Venue
Jageshwar Fair is
held everywhere the 15th of Shrawan (August / September) of Hindu calendar. The
Mela is hosted on the hills of Dantrai in Dantrai village.
Jauljibi & Thal
Fairs and centenaries are an significant part of
lives of the people of Uttaranchal. The fairs are a place to socialize and meet
people and do business. Jauljibi and Thal are such popular fairs celebrated in
Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand. Both these fairs were started in November
1914 and since then they are set up every year. The Jauljibi fair is held at
the convergence point of rives Kali and Gori. The region is supposed to the
halfway meeting point between Tibet and Terai region.
Celebration Time
Jauljibi fair is
held in the month of February on the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti near the
Kali and Gori River delta, 68 kms from Pithoragarh. The Thal fair is held in
the month of April on the day of Baisakh Sankranti in the Thal village grounds.
Haridwar Kumbh
Ardh Kumbh Mela is held every six years at the
banks of the holy Ganges River in Haridwar. Millions of people gather to be
part of a religious fervor and inspite of the rush still achieve to have a good
time. Har ki Pauri, the holiest river bank, is exceptionally crowded and people
arrive from all parts of the world. The holy dips start from as early as three
in the morning to ensure the ‘purest’ of dips. The majority of the population
consists of saints and sadhus, mainly Naga sadhus, who are given special
preference and security for dips. Some of these sadhus perform uncommon acts
like standing on their heads for a long time or piercing themselves with
objects before bathing.
Mystic Powers in Kumbh
People believe that
bathing during Kumbh cures of all sins and evils and grants salvation. It is
also held that at the time of Kumbh, the water of Ganga is charged with
positive healing effects. The water is considered to be charged positively by
enhanced electromagnetic radiations of the Sun, the Moon and the Jupiter, the
flux of which also varies in accordance to positions and the phases of the
planets.
Nanda Devi Fair
Fairs in Uttarakhand serve as a meeting point for
mingling with people from other parts of the state, trade items of local
produce and of course celebrate something of religious importance. People in
the state celebrate the Nanda Devi Fair in tribute of the goddesses Nanda and
Sunanda. The fairs at Almora and RoopKund draw the largest number of people.
The term Nanda means prosperity and well being. Nanda Devi Fair is held with a
great deal of pageantry and magnificence and it signifies the economic and
cultural affluence of the region.
Month & Venue
The Nanda Devi Fair
is usually held in the month of late August or early September depending upon
the date of the lunar calendar. It is held in many places in Uttaranchal like
Almora, Nainital, Nauti, Dandidhara, Munsiyari, Ranikhet, Bhowali and Kichha.
The tiny sluggish settlement of Lohar (like Milam and Martoli) and Pindar
valleys (like Wachham and Khati) are also not far behind. In Chamoli however
the fair is held once in twelve years, like the Maha Kumbh Mela.
Purnagiri Fair
Purnagiri is located on the top of a hill and is
20 kms from Tanakpur. Purnagiri It is located on the right bank of the river
kali. Also known as Punyagiri (meaning the mountain of good deeds), the
Purnagiri temple is visited by thousands of devotees throughout the year. The
temple fair is organized between the months of Poush and Chaitra (March) during
which the entire valley of Punyagiri reverberates with the sound of chants,
hymns and devotional songs.
The most amazing
thing about this fair is that it starts from Vishuwat Sanskranti and continues
for about forty days (starting from the winter Navratras). Legend has it that
this is the place where Ma Sati, a human incarnation of Goddess Durga,
immolated herself when her father insulted her and her husband Lord Shiva. The
temple is located near the banks of River Kali
The people of the state of Uttarakhand celebrate
a number of fairs and festivals. The Uttarayani Fair is a perfect example of
the highly sacred sentiments of the local residents. Of all the places, the
Bageshwar temple fair attracts the largest number of people. At Pancheshwar,
the dola of Chaumu comes down to the temple. Though very old and mainly a
commercial fair, even today the fair attracts a large number of people, who
spend the whole night dancing and singing Jhoras, Chancharis and Bairas.
Month & Venue
The Uttarayani Fair
is held on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, dated 14th January at various
places like Bageshwar, Rameshwar, Mahadev, Chitrashila (Ranibagh) and
Hanseshwar. This day is so auspicious that it is believed that bathing in holy
waters will wash away one’s sin for at least seven lives.s
