Chhath Puja 2023 - 19 November, Sunday

Chhath, also known as Dala Chhath is an important festival celebrated in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and many other parts of India in which setting Sun (dusk) is worshiped. Although Bihar celebrates Chhath most elaborately it is also followed in some parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa, Assam and also Mauritius, mainly among the Bhojpuri and Maithali speaking people. Chhath is also important for Nepalese worshipers of god as well as in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The best place to witness Chhath would be around Northern Bihar where it is celebrated in great grandeur. The festival is observed since time immemorial with the constant faith that the Sun God fulfills wishes if araghya is offered with complete dedication and devotion. Along with the Sun God people worship Chhathi Maiya on this day.

Sunrise time on the day of Chhath Puja - 06:28 AM
Sunset time on the day of Chhath Puja - 05:14 pm
Shashti Tithi Commencement - November 18, 2023, at 09:18 AM
Shashti Tithi Expires - November 19, 2023, at 07:23 AM

In 2023, it falls on Sunday, 19 November

Nahay Khaye - 17 November 2023
Kharna - 18 November 2023
Astagami Surya Ko Arghya - 19 November 2023
Salutation to the Rising Sun - 20 November 2023

Chhath is not just a physical attachment to the people of Bihar, it is also present in their hearts, and this is why the people bring wherever they have migrated. Nowadays it can be easily seen at the ghats of Yamuna in Delhi and other parts of India indicating its presence across the country.

It is a festival connected with purity, devotion to the Sun God who is considered as the source of life on this earth and is regarded as the deity who fulfills all our wishes.

The festival is with an aim to express thanks to Sun God for offering energy to earth continuously enabling the environment suitable for the people to live.

In the evening arghya people express their thanks to Sun God for its work in growing their crops during the preceding year and morning arghya is considered as a request for a bountiful crop, peace and prosperity in the year to come.

Devotees assemble at the ghats at rivers and ponds including Ganges and take a holy dip before preparing offerings (Prasad). The main constituent of the offerings are Thekua, which is a wheat based cake.

Offerings are preferably cooked on earthen Chulha (oven). Some traditions are exercised with little difference varying from region to region and across the families with basic similarity.

During the offerings are contained in small, semicircular pans woven out of bamboo strips called soop.

Chhath is a Hindu festival but many Muslim families also participates in this holy festival.

छठ पूजा की विधि, भजन, कथा हिंदी में जानने के लिये यहां क्लिक करें