it comes once in life. Pithi is the paste that made out of chickpea flour, turmeric, rose water and other ingredients. Since ancient’s times, Pithi ceremony is celebrated both bride and bride groom home separately in Hindu wedding. This entails rubbing a paste on bride and bride groom’s face, hands and legs. The paste when rubbed on is excellent for the skin and evens out skin tone. Family members and friends often times have fun getting the bride and groom completely covered in the paste.
There is a belief that If bride or bridegroom rub this pithi to someone who is matured and unmarried, then it increase the possibility of getting married for unmarried that person.
Pithi ceremony is one of the major auspicious occasions of Hindu marriage ceremonies, Pithi has its own importance. It is a celebration of love and happiness for one who is being married. Pithi ceremony is arranged mostly before two or three days of the marriage. It is so arranged that all relatives come and prepare for the ceremony. Pithi ceremony indicates that now the girl or boy has entered into adulthood and is ready for the marriage.
Importance of Pithi
Indian marriages have calculative and medicinal as well as scientific reasons behind all major and minor occasions. From the very early time when there were no chemical paste to cleanse and purify body to prepare for the holy occasion Pithi paste had its own importance. Even it shares its own importance in modern time as a major ceremony. This is a festival when one gets a chance to apply Pithi own his dear ones. Everyone wants to express his feelings for the bride and groom. Relatives gather and prepare for the ceremony in their unique ways.
Matruka Stapan are prayer sessions held in the bride/ groom's homes respectively to seek the blessings of the heavenly bodies to ensure the happiness and the fertility of the couple.
Raas and Garba are traditional Gujarati folk dances that everyone can participate in. Everyone dances energetically to rhythmic music in a circular form, around a central picture of the Goddess Durga and a lit candle. It is typically performed during the festival of Navratri and celebrates victory of Goddess Durga (good) over Mahishasura (evil) - the mighty demon-king. Garba is usually done by a large group of people, where the simplest form requires the repetition of a short sequence of steps. Raas is done in pairs while holding sticks called dandiya.
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