{"id":2733,"date":"2022-04-01T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2023-11-20T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:21:36","slug":"gangaur-2022-its-significance-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/gangaur-2022-its-significance-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangaur 2022: Its Significance &#038; Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Gangaur &#8211; The Festival Of Love<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Gangaur is a festival that celebrates love, its depth and the feeling of joy and happiness that one gets from seeing their love\u2019s destiny fulfilled. It starts on the first day of the month of Chaitra and ends on the third day of Shukla Paksha of the same month. In other words, it begins on the following day of Holi and ends after 18 days of celebration. This year, Gangaur will be celebrated from March 18 till April 4. People celebrate Gangaur with great zeal and pomp throughout Rajasthan and in some parts of West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">The story of Gangaur<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2868\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/talkastro.appspot.com\/1\/2022\/04\/blog-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lord Shiva\" width=\"650\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blog-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blog-1-1-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Gangaur comprises two words Gan which refers to Lord Shiva and Gaur, which refers to Maa Gauri. Maa Parvati had performed a severe \u201ctap\u201d (penance) to convince Lord Shiva to marry her. Her devotion and persistence moved Lord Shiva, and he indeed agreed to take her as his wife. So, Gangaur is a celebration of a marital bond and the spouse&#8217;s well-being. During this festival, the locals also pray to Lord Shiva and Maa Parvati to provide <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/instaastrosocial\/\">them with a fruitful spring full of harvest.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">How is it celebrated?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2863 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-3.jpg\" alt=\"Gangaur festival 2022\" width=\"650\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-3-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Usually, the women observe a fast during the 18-day long festival and pray for their husband\u2019s well-being and long life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Unmarried women can also take part in fasting to get Maa Parvati\u2019s blessing for a good husband.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Women decorate their hands and feet. Then, the exchange of gifts takes place, including clothes, jewelry items, makeup, and sweets. It is customary for married women to receive gift hampers from their parents. This custom is known as Sinjara.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Clay idols of Shiva-Gauri are decorated and worshipped during the festival. Women wearing traditional attire loaded with jewellery often place these idols on their heads and march in processions across the streets with musicians and the local people taking part in it. All the people enjoy the fair with traditional folk songs and various kinds of delectable items to eat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>The end of Gangaur<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/talkastro.appspot.com\/1\/2022\/04\/blog-11-1.png\" alt=\"Toy\" width=\"650\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blog-11-1.png 650w, https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/blog-11-1-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">The festival marks its endnote with the immersion of the idols in the water bodies. Usually, unmarried women and men from certain tribes of Rajasthan come forward to meet each other with the prospect of marriage in mind. People from several parts of the world chime in on this celebration. Many kinds of fairs occur across the state in various corners, and every person <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/chaitra-navratri-2022-scientific-religious-reasons-of-fasting\/\">takes up the spirit of festivity.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaipur and Udaipur are the two places that are famous for Gangaur, and Udaipur even has a ghat named after the festival &#8211; Gangauri Ghat. Ghewar is a dish that the locals usually love during this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Also Read &#8211;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/chaitra-navratri-2022-scientific-religious-reasons-of-fasting\/\">Chaitra Navratri 2022: Scientific &amp; Religious Reasons Of Fasting<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangaur &#8211; The Festival Of Love Gangaur is a festival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3427,40],"tags":[390,391,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-2733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english","8":"category-festivals","9":"tag-gangaur","10":"tag-hindu-religion","11":"tag-indian-festival"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v23.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gangaur festival 2022: Date, Significance, Rituals, Vrat Katha-Instaastro<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gangaur is a festival 2022 that celebrates love, joy and happiness that one gets from seeing their love\u2019s destiny fulfilled\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/instaastro.com\/blog\/gangaur-2022-its-significance-celebration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gangaur 2022: Its Significance &amp; 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