History
This celebration is additionally called Yama Dwitiya. As the legend goes, Yama removes any individual who is too acceptable and has never been reviled by others. So the convention is for sisters to curse their siblings on this day, with the expectation that Yama won’t wander near their siblings and they will appreciate long lives. As a youngster, I generally discovered this custom too horrendous and would begin sobbing uncontrollably when I would be told to say “I wish my sibling kicks the bucket”. This would happen quite a long time after a year, regardless of whether I had battled with them minutes sooner. To top it, my mom would concoct realistic condemnations, envisioning every single one of her five siblings working in better places surrendering to some fiasco!
For instance, she would wish that one of her siblings, a mariner, ought to suffocate in the ocean. I would be alarmed at her words. The condemnations are trailed by another custom where the ladies express lament for their words by penetrating their tongues with a rengni katana. These are likely disinfectant thistles of a thorny organic product which is a crawler. Who knows whether these desires for long lives work! In any case, my uncle had a marvellous getaway in the Bay of Bengal when his boat sank. Possibly my mom’s yearly reviles proved to be useful to save him from Yamraj!
Different legends encompass this celebration. One goes that King Prithu welcomes his wedded little girl to her sibling’s wedding. On her way to the wedding she catches a potter saying that the Prince would kick the bucket during the baraat (wedding parade) as his sister has never reviled him. Tensely she arrives at the wedding and starts reviling her sibling a lot to the visitors’ stun. She at that point demands joining the parade and leads the baraat. Up and down the course she slaughters venomous snakes and scorpions and conceals them inside the folds of her saree. At the point when the baraat arrives at its objective, Yamraj shows up. Yet, seeing the affection between the kin chooses to return with practically nothing. At that point,, the sister shows everybody how she had shielded her sibling from such countless toxic animals.
Importance
In Bihar, Bhai Dooj is likewise called Godhan Puja. Promptly in the first part of the day, ladies commend this celebration in a local area meeting. Ladies of one zone accumulate in the yard or open space of one house and make a huge square shape of cow dung—all the ladies lounge around this construction. In the middle are two icons of Yama, the God of Death and his sister Yami (otherwise called the waterway Yamuna). A few different symbols of snakes and scorpions are likewise made. This is trailed by a perusing of the legends behind this celebration and the singing of people melodies.
Interesting Facts
Different ceremonies are remembered for Godhan Pooja. Ladies make wreaths of cotton that day. The more extended the wreaths, the more drawn out the siblings live. Toward the function’s finish, the ladies together pulverize all the constructions they have made with a moosal (a long wooden pestle). This is an interesting inquiry answer meeting, where the ladies are asked, who they are squashing, and they answer in theme: “My sibling’s foes”. The siblings are approached to swallow five seeds of bajri, which are hard seeds of keraao, in the conviction that it will make them solid.
Time to Celebrate
On the second day after Diwali, a few networks in India observe Bhai Dooj. It is called Bhai Teeka, Bhau Beej or Bhai Phota in various states. The standard method of praising the connection among siblings and sisters is by applying a teeka on the sibling’s brow. In any case, the celebration is commended in a fairly exceptional manner in Bihar.