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Harela

  • July 17, 2022
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Harela

Subject : History

Section: Art and Culture

  • Villagers across Uttarakhand celebrated Harela, a festival of greenery, peace, prosperity and environmental conservation
  • Harela means ‘day of green’ and is celebrated in the month of Shravan (the fifth month of the Hindu lunar calendar) to worship Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati.
  • People across Uttarakhand, especially the Kumaun region, associate greenery with prosperity.
  • The seeds of five to seven types of crops —  maize, til (sesame), urad(black gram), mustard, oats —  are sown in donas (bowl made of leaves) or ringalare (hill bamboo baskets) nine days before the festival.
  • They are harvested on the ninth day and distributed to neighbours, friends and relatives.
  • The flourish of the crops symbolises prosperity in the year ahead.
  • People make clay statues of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, known as Dikare, and worship them a day before the festival.
  • Locals of Garhwal said Harela is also linked to the Barahnaza system (12 types of crops), a crop diversification technique followed in the region.
  • On the day of the festival the locals sing the in kumaoni language.
Harela History

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