Fasting, Prasad ,Arghya are key highlights of festival
Nahaye Khaye
Cleaning of houses.Evening Chick Pea lentils, Bottle Gourd with Roti are made as prasad.
Rasiaav-Roti/Kharna/Lohanda
Devotees keep absolute fasting. In the evening, they can eat gur ki kheer (Kheer made up of jaggery) called as Rasiaav, fruits and chapati.
Sandhya Arghya
Evening after arghya (Worshipping Sun) , a bamboo basket is decorated with fruits, thekua and rice laddus offered to Sun God and the Chhathi Maiya.Shashthi Devi songs are sung in the night and the vrat katha is heard.
Usha Arghya
Before sunrise, the devotees have to go to the riverbank to offer an arghya to the rising sun and Chatti Maiya. After worship, devotees drink sharbat and raw milk, and eat a little prasad in order to break one's fast which is called Parana.
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