Odisha is an Indian state situated in the southeast part of country. It mostly known for Lord Jagannath in the world. Bhubaneswar is the capital of Odisha. Its a costal state shares its cost line with Bey of Bengal.
It is also known as valukuni Osha. It show the care and love of brother-sister relationship. Its a girl centered festival besides it women also celebrated this festival. Now in the modern day most of ladies celebrated it.
On the Sunday morning of Bhadrab month, all young girls' wake up early morning in a rural area of Odisha. As it is a holiday so girls' busy the whole day with this festival. They collected various flowers here and there and then tied them with various designs which looks very beautiful. There are different puja mandaps in one village where this puja is celebrated. So There is a kind of competition between the puja mandaps. So all tried to collect more flowers to decorate their own puja mandap beautifully.
Then they clean the puja mandap, it may be someone's veranda or maybe the worship place village Goddess(Gram Devi Mandira). Then the group of girls goes to take a bath in the village pond. There they also do a ritual called Baluka stapana in the local language after they completing their bath.
In this festival, brothers are also helping their sisters to celebrate the festival. They help their sisters to arrange the puja. The brother and sister's love and affections show here. The brothers arrange puja and the sisters worship goddess Mangala to keep out their brothers from all kinds of difficulties.
The ritual of this festival is to worship Goddess Mangala and offer her Khuda bhaja as prasad. An ancient story behind this is that a girl named Tapoi worships Maa Mangala in difficult condition to come back to her brothers.
In this blog, I try to explain my state's rituals and cultures. Khudurukuni Osha is a local festival in which tiny ager girls enjoy their childhood also learns about their culture and rituals. Girls' indirectly taught how to worship goddesses, how to be responsible towards family members, and also the purest love of brothers and sisters.
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