Sama Pancham Vrat(Rishi Panchami)Date2016 to 2021
Sama Pancham is Known as a Rishi Panchami.According to Gujarati Month this Sama Pancham Vrat and Rishi Panchami is Observed on Bhadra Months Sud Paksh Pancham(Day of Five). Here is date of Sama Pancham Vrat or Rishi Panchami according to english Gregorian calendar year 2016 to year 2021.
Sama Pancham Vrat Date Year 2016: September 6 Tuesday
Sama Pancham Vrat Date Year 2017: August 26 Saturday
Sama Pancham Vrat Date Year 2018: September 114 Friday
Sama Pancham Vrat Date Year 2019: September 3 Tuesday
Sama Pancham Vrat Date Year 2020: August 23 Sunday
Sama Pancham Vrat Date Year 2021: September 11 Saturday
Sama Pancham is a unique ritual observed mainly in Gujarat in the Bhadrapad Month (August – September). Women and farmers observe certain rituals on the day.On the Sama Pancham day, people cook and eat only Sama grains. The ritual is observed on the fifth day of the Shukla Paksha (waxing phase of moon) in Bhadrapad Month. On this day, farmers and people associated with agricultural activities cook and eat Sama – the seeds that a kind of wild grass.
Women observe on the day rituals associated with Rushi Pancham. Some women avoid performing religious rituals on the day and indulge in singing of bhajans.
Sama Pancham Vrat Katha
Lord Brahma narrated the legend of a generous Brahmin called Uttank. Uttank lived with his wife Sushila in Vidharba. Uttanks wife Sushila is very much dedicated to her husband. The devoted couple has a son and a daughter. Their daughter married to a young man but he died after few months of their marriage.
The parents constructed a cottage on the bank of the holy river Ganga and lived in it with the widow daughter. One day when she was sleeping in the cottage her body was covered with the ants. The parents were frightened and called the Brahmins. Brahmins performed some rituals and confirmed that in her previous birth, she had enteredinto the kitchen on the day of menstruation.
The Brahmins told them about the significance and puja procedure of Rushi Panchami Rajaswala vrat and asked them to perform the vrata to get rid of the bad effects of the daughters mistake in her previous birth. Uttank and Sushila made their daughter to performRishi Panchami puja and freed her from the rajasvala dosha of her previous birth.
According the scriptures and Hindu beliefs, the girl on the first day ofmenstruation is Chandalini (demon). On the second day she is considered as Bhramdhatini, a witch. On the third day, the girl is a washer woman and on the fourth or the final day after performing bath, she becomes purified.
Sama pancham Vrat Pooja Process
On the day of Sama Pancham, Devotees perform ritual bath in holy rivers or other water bodies. They clean their hands 108 times, the mouth 108 times. Lord Ganesh, Navagraha – nine planetary Gods, Saptarshis – seven Sages and Arundathi are worshipped. Woman offer the prashad to Gods and wash her husbands feet.
Then, women again perform sacred bath. They rub the special red mud for several times on different parts of the body. They sprinkle water over head and brush the teeth for 360 times with Dantiwan, a sacred plant. With taking ritual bath once again in sacred water devotees feel blessed that their all sins are cleansed away.
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