Chhath
chaṭhaThe four-day eastern festival of austere riverbank worship of the sun god, Surya.
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Chhath is thriving , in Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh and the Nepal Tarai, and its presiding figure is Chhathi Maiya, whom scholarship generally identifies with Shashthi, the sixth-day goddess of childbirth a…
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Chhath is the festival of Bihar , Jharkhand , and eastern Uttar Pradesh, kept on the sixth tithi of the bright fortnight of Kartika , devoted to Surya , the sun, and to Chhathi Maiya .