Karva Chauth SMS – Festival of Women SMS

On this Karva Chauth day,Wishing you all success in your family life.

Celebrate this festival by meeting friends and families and streghthen the relationship.

This is a time to exchange love and gifts to your nearest ones.Happy Karva Chauth.

Celebrate Karva Chauth and protect social values and relationships.

It is a festival of sacrifice and love.Wishing all prosperity in your life.

Hindu Married women of North India celebrate Karva Chauth by fasting and praying for the well-being, prosperity and longevity of their husbands. Karva Means a small clay pot and chouth means fourth day.Karva Chauth is observed on the fourth day of the dark fortnight of Ashwin, which is also called Kartik.
History:
This is the festival of Hindu married women.After their marriage the girls live in her husbands house with her husband’s family members.There is no communication between these two family members. So the girls would befriend another woman who would be her friend or sister for life,to sort out any issue of the bride with her husband or in-laws. They would also treat each other like real sisters. Karva Chauth is started to celebrate this relationship and strengthen it.Another legend is related to a woman named Karva, who saved her husband from death as he caught by a crocodile, by forcing Yama to save her husband and kill the crocodile using the power of a devoted wife.
Procedure:
Women, especially newly wedded, wake up in the dawn and worship Shiva, Parvati, Ganesh, Kartikeya and the moon. Mothers-in-law give their daughters-in-law sumptuous food called 'Sargi' to eat before sunrise, as the fast starts just before sunrise and ends only after worshiping the moon at night. Women get baya, a clay pot, with full of goodies from their mother meant for their mother-in-law. In the evening women dressed up in bridal finery pray for the long life and welfare of their husbands. While chanting the prayers, they pass their bayas from one to another. An elderly woman of the family narrates the legend of Karva Chauth. The fasting women first observe the moon through a sieve and then break their fastby accepting a sip of water and the first morsel of food is offered by the husband followed by a splendid dinner.