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| {{Short description|Hindu festival where wives pray for husbands}}
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| |holiday_name = Savitri Brata
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| |type = Hindu
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| |image = Savitiri saves Satyavan.jpg
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| |caption = Savitri begs Yama for Satyavan's life.
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| |nickname = Savitri Osha{{Cn|date=October 2019}}
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| |observedby = Married Hindu women of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Nepal
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| |date = [[Jyeshtha (month)]] [[Amavasya]]
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| |date2013 = 8 June
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| |date2014 = 28 May
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| |date2015 = 17 May
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| |date2016 = 23 Jestha (5 June)
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| |date2017 = 25 May
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| |date2018 = 15 may
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| '''Savitri Brata''' or '''Savitri Amavasya''' is a [[fasting]] day observed by married [[Hindu]] women on the [[Amavasya]], the no moon day in month of [[Jyeshtha (month)|Jyeshtha]].{{cn|date=September 2018}} It is celebrated in the [[Indian states]] of [[Odisha]], [[Bihar]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and in [[Nepal]]. It is also known as Sabitri Uwaans in [[Western Odisha]] region.<ref>{{cite web|title=Savitri Brata Fasting in Orissa – Savithri Amavasi Utshav|url=http://www.hindu-blog.com/2008/05/savitri-brata-fasting-in-orissa.html|website=www.hindu-blog.com|access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref>
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| Married Hindu women whose husbands are alive observe it as a vow with great dedication and pray for their husband to have a long life. The word reflects the origin and significance of the Vat-Savitri puja. The fast is dedicated to Savitri, who saved her husband [[Satyavan]] from being taken by the death god. {{citation needed|date=December 2017}}
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| The same festival is observed on [[Vat Purnima]], the full moon of Jyestha in other regions including [[Maharashtra]], [[Goa]], [[Gujarat]], [[Karnataka]]. {{citation needed|date=December 2017}}
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| ==Legend behind the festival==
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| {{Main|Savitri and Satyavan}}
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| The [[vrata]] was named after Savitri, the beautiful daughter of King Aswapati of [[Madra Kingdom|Madra Desa]]. She selected Satyavan, a prince in exile who was living in the forest with his blind father Dyumatsen, as her life partner. She left the palace and lived with her husband and the in-laws in the forest. As a devoted wife and daughter-in-law, she went to great lengths to take care of them. One day while cutting wood in the jungle, Satyavan's head reeled and he fell down from a tree. Then [[Yama]], the death God, appeared to take away Satyavan's soul. Deeply hurt, Savitri pleaded to Yamraj not to be separated from her husband. If anything, he would take away the soul of her husband and she would also follow. Yamraj, moved by the devotion of Savitri, returned the life of her husband. Soon Satyavan regained his lost kingdom.
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| ==Customs and rituals==
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| All Hindu women observe this festival by worshiping and propitiating Savitri as a [[Devi]].<ref>{{cite web|title=sabitri brata Poem|url=http://www.odia.org/books/sabitri_smallFont.pdf|website=odia.org|access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref> In the early morning, women take purifying baths, wear new clothes and bangles, and apply [[vermilion]] to their foreheads. Nine types of fruits and nine types of flowers are offered to the Goddess. Wet [[Pulse (legume)|pulses]], [[rice]], [[mangos]], [[jackfruit]]s, palm fruits, kendu, [[banana]]s and several other fruits are offered as Bhoga (offering) and observe the festival with Savitri brata [[Katha (storytelling format)|katha]]. After fasting for the whole day, the fasting is over and the women have the Bhoga. In the afternoon, when formalities of worship are over, they bow to their husbands and elderly people.<ref>{{cite web|title=OdiaPortal.IN: How Women of Odisha Celebrates — Savitri Brata, Significance & Legend Behind this Festival|url=http://www.odiaportal.in/2016/06/Significance-Of-Savitri-Amavasya-Or-Savitri-Brata.html|website=odiaportal.in|access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Karva Chauth]]
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| == References ==
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.orissatourism.gov.in/festivals.htm Festivals of Orissa]
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