Vat Purnima or Vat Savitri is a celebration in North India, in Maharashtra, Goa, and Gujarat. This day appears to be a full moon day in which a married woman marks her love for her husband by tying a thread around a Banyan tree. This day falls in the month of Jyeshtha according to the Hindu calendar and according to the Gregorian calendar it falls in May-June. This year it is on the 24th of June i.e. today. There is a beautiful story behind this celebration.
The story states bac to the age of Mahabharata where the King named Asvapati and his consort Malavi wish to have a son. the God Saitr appears in front of them and tells them that they were gonna have a daughter soon. Sooner, she is born and named Savitri in honor of God. She is pretty and put. Her father told her to find a husband on her own as no man was asking her for marriage. She soon finds Satyavan, son of the blind King Dyumaysena. Satyavan is destined to die in one year from that day. Still, she agrees to marry him. Three days before the anticipated death of Satyavan, Savitri decides to take a vow of fasting and asked her father-in-law for his supports.
On the day of prediction, Satyavan suddenly becomes weak and lays his head on Savitri's lap, and in no time he dies. Savitri places his body under the shade of the Banyan tree. The God of death, Yama, comes to claims his soul. Savitri offers him praise and Yama got impressed and offers her any blessing or boon, except for Satyavan's life. She asks for the restoration of her father-in-law's eyesight, then a hundred children for her father and a hundred children for herself. This had put Yama into a puzzle. But he decided to give her another chance to choose any wish and he forgets to mention the exception of Satyavan's Life. She immediately asked for his life and Yama blessed Savitri's life with eternal happiness. Satyavan's life is back and meantime her father-in-law gains his eyesight back and he has also got his kingdom back. The banyan tree is worshipped in the memory of the love of both of them.
On this occasion, the married women keep fast for three days as Savitri did, and the pictures of Banyan tree or Vat, Savitri, Satyavan, and Yama are drawn with the paste of scandal and rice on the floor or the walls. A thread is wound around a tree seven times and is worshipped. It is believed that until the next seven births they will get the same husband and their husband will live well.
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